April 28, 2022
April marks the anniversary of the Section 504 sit-ins. When Section 504 passed into law as the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, it was one of the first US federal civil rights laws offering protection to us with disabilities. It set the groundwork for everything that came after, including the Americans with Disabilities Act (the ADA). [...]
Category: 504 Sit-in
“But For Those First Affections…”
A Look Back To The Power of 504 – Some Reflections and Recollections of a CIL Old-Timer.
Disability Rights Museum on Wheels at the ERC
The Power of The Power of 504
The Beauty of the Americans with Disabilities Act
In the spring of 1977, I took a quarter off from college, quit my job and, with my best friend, bought a 1966 VW camper van to explore the United States. Before we left, we spent a warm April day (California was in a drought and Jerry Brown was governor, how odd!) practicing the manual shift on the hills of San Francisco. We figured that if we could manage the hills of San Francisco in the bus, we could manage it anywhere. Continue reading