by The Disability Union | Tuesday, 20 October, 2020 | Disability Laws, Disability Rights, History
Going to any kind of public building today, you’ll see ramps, door buttons, and a whole host of accessibility tools. Though these things are required by law today, that wasn’t always the case. Before the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990, there was...
by The Disability Union | Tuesday, 22 September, 2020 | Disability, History
The history of disability isn’t often talked about, but that doesn’t mean that it’s unimportant. Disability, whether we know it or not, has affected events throughout time. In last week’s article, we began talking about disability history in the United States. ...
by The Disability Union | Saturday, 19 September, 2020 | Disability, History
The history of disability and disabled people is rarely talked about. Despite disability being present for all of history, rarely do we hear about disabled people from history. Because of this, we forget that disabilities didn’t just appear one day, and...
by The Disability Union | Sunday, 13 September, 2020 | Disability Rights, History
Today we’re going to continue recounting the history of Ed Roberts, the Rolling Quads, and their contributions to disability rights activism. This article is part three, so check out part one and part two! The PDSP, or Physically Disabled Student Program, instantly...
by The Disability Union | Thursday, 10 September, 2020 | Disability Rights, History
By 1967 there were 12 disabled students attending UCB and living in Cowel, the university’s health center. Ed Roberts, who was the pioneer who first got the dorm set up, had graduated undergrad and was now working on his masters degree. The Rolling Quads,...
by The Disability Union | Monday, 7 September, 2020 | Disability Rights, History
1962 was a monumental year for the disability rights movement, even if Ed Roberts didn’t know it at the time. The fall of 1962 was when Roberts began his education at University of California at Berkeley. Attending college isn’t noteworthy all on its own, but...
