Today in 1990, activists lobbying for passage of the Americans With Disabilities Act abandoned wheelchairs and other mobility aids for the "Capitol Crawl" up the building steps. Jennifer Keelan, an 8-year-old with cerebral palsy, told cameramen "I'll take all night if I have to!"
I dunno, that seems unseemly, they should have just worked within the system and taken whatever scraps the Democrats eventually offered.
The proper way to get change around the edges eventually, incrementally.
And where are we now? In the middle of a mass disabling event, and no one in power seems to care about the lives of those with disabilities. They have been written off to Covid.
It’s truly abominable. We have fallen so far from the early 90s.
You can tell this is not a modern picture as there is no police throwing them out of their chair onto the steps in the first place and being torture cuffed.
this act truly is a force to be reckoned and sets an international example.
even the cities of Amsterdam and London have terrible accommodations for disabilities in comparison to DC.
please don’t dump my father into the canals again, he’s too old.
Not the point, but you'll notice that no one in the photo is dressed for late winter in D.C. (winter was still a thing in mid-Atlantic USA back in those days). And that is because temperatures reached a jaw-dropping 89 degrees F that afternoon, still D.C.'s hottest winter afternoon on record.
Just wait until you learn about the state of disability laws elsewhere in the world in 2024. Societies don't care about the disabled and it's a miracle the ADA was passed
