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![People’s Radio Journal: Rights for the Disabled](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Call Number: KP 187Format: Cass A & BProducers: KPOOProgram: People’s Radio JournalCollection: General materials
Two disabled woman speakers explain their experience with their "sit in" protest in the HEW building. Fighting for disabled people's rights, a 26-day sit in was done to get proposition 504 signed. With a great number of disabled people occupying this federal building, many people protested against president Carter. During Carter's electoral running he said he would fight for human rights including disabled people's rights. However when elected, Carter changed his decisions toward the disabled. The government said that catering to the civil rights of the disabled would cost too much money. This sparked a huge disabled campaign to get more regulations for jobs, housing, etc. During the interview, the speakers talked about numerous ways in which the government tried to stop them. In the result of the protest, prop 504 was signed.
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