How To Join The Disability Rights Movement

Up until the mid 1970's it was actually illegal to be disabled in a sort. It was the 'Ugly Law' which many with Cerebral Palsy suffered greatly from. If anyone was reported ugly due to a deformity of any kind, they would be arrested and taken back home. While not many things like that still happen today, there are situations that happen that are still Ableistic in their own ways. Many crimes that happen against disabled people won't get televised or any awareness raised at all. Parents with disabilities are more likely lose custody of their child, a lot of times for no reason besides being disabled. For intellectually challenged parents there's up to an 80% chance of them losing their child. There are businesses that will refuse to let a handicapped worker to any jobs where they might be visible, some refuse designated parking spaces. The disabled are often paid less, in many places they are paid below minimum wage. Which might be overlooked, if the disability benefits had any help to offer. Unfortunately, disability only offers anywhere from $5k-$7k a year, and the recipient and family they are living with cannot earn more than around $20k a year. The average middle class person is expected to make around $30k a year. Not only must the disabled live off such mediocre wages, but the necessities are ridiculously priced. Manual

The presence of medical conditions, classified as disabilities by the Americans with Disabilities Act as, “…a physical or mental impairment that

Individuals with disability have had a long history of maltreatment in America. From being thought of as possessed individuals in need of exorcism, targeted for heinous experiments, unknowingly sterilized, being labeled imbecile, feeble minded, and retarded, to being shipped off to state schools or mental asylums, those with disabilities were given no consideration as a valuable and able to contribute member of society. In a speech to congress, Frank Bowe, a highly educated deaf-man highlighted this claim by stating, “we are not even second-class citizens, we are third-class citizens” (Bowe, F. 1977--need citation), and Jim Cherry (2001) furthered the ideal in his words, that prior to “1970 we [disabled citizens] had no right to education, to employment, to transportation, to housing, or to voting. There were no civil rights laws for us, no federal advocacy grants. Few people looked beyond our medical needs” (Cherry, J.L, 2001 http://www.raggededgemagazine.com/0701/0701cov.htm). Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 attempted to fundamentally change how disabled people were reguarded.

I think that it really depends on where you live in the world. Some cultures, like New Zealand try and treat people with disabilities as equals. In Canada, they have been discriminated against in the past. However, now they are taking

Disability has functioned historically to justify inequality for disabled people themselves, but it has also done so for women and minority groups. That is, not only has it been considered justifiable to treat disabled people unequally, but the concept of

Disability justice is both a movement and an intersectional framework of analysis that moves the focus away from rights and independence and, instead, centers justice, intersectionality, interdependence, and accountability, all in effort to address the variety of needs of the most marginalized within a society. In other words, as was explained by Mia Mingus in her piece, “Changing the Framework: Disability Justice” (2011), instead of placing an emphasis on obtaining rights and independence as was done so during the disability rights movement in the 20th century, disability justice fights, instead, to bring about justice to the lives of those continuously and disproportionately oppressed and abused by individuals and institutions by virtue od being disabled. However, in order to do so, disability justice recognizes and stresses the importance of accountability and interdependence, as

According to the Legal Information Institute (2015), Congress concluded that “discrimination against individuals with disabilities persists in such critical areas as education, transportation, communication, recreation, institutionalization, health services, voting, and access to public services.” The finding in this case, together with the extensive record of disability discrimination that underlies it, makes it clear beyond peradventure that inadequate provision of public services and access to public facilities was an appropriate subject for prophylactic legislation (LLI,

The Disabilities movement has been the fight for equal rights for those with a disability, no matter whether it’s physical or mental. The American Disabilities Act of 1990 has centuries of history that led up to it. For hundreds of years, people considered people with disabilities to be contagious, worthless, The Disabilities movement has been the fight for equal rights for those with a disability, no matter whether it’s physical or mental. The American Disabilities Act of 1990 has centuries of history that led up to it. For hundreds of years, people considered people with disabilities to be contagious, worthless, less human, and other terrible descriptions. The thought process evolved, significantly in the 20th century, to a more civil and

Like the African-Americans who sat in at segregated lunch counters and refused to move to the back of the bus, people with disabilities sat in federal buildings, obstructed the movement of inaccessible buses, and marched through the streets to protest injustice. And like the civil rights movements before it, the disability rights movement sought justice in the courts and in the halls of

I was intrigued with how the disabled have joined forces to end discrimination in their lives recently to end discrimination in the United States. I learned that many did so by withholding their labor which in returned slowed down the democratic wheel and by networking to strengthen their demands (Bryan 2010). I question how these individuals did so without the expense of their jobs and needs being met. This was needed though, the lack of concern for the disabled was present in multiple congress bills that died in committee (Bryan 2010). As the author stated, which I do agree with, I feel this lack of concern was due to ignorance of the disables needs rather than the desire to deny civil rights (Bryan 2010).

They are no longer locked in basements or hospitals, they are supported and given opportunities just as those who have no disabilities are. They also do not face such derogatory terms and labels as they have in the past. When talking about terminology used there is still no consensus on which words are used to refer to them. People from different countries and cultures use both different concepts as well as different terms to refer to those with disabilities. Examples can be seen of the evolvement of terms as in the United States as we have went from refereeing to those with disabilities as mentally retarded to intellectually disabled.

It cannot be good for that person suffering from the Disability. Yes they need extra help need a little more attention. What’s running through society head is their helpless. With that kind of stereotype they can’t help but think of suicide. They start to wonder what the point of living is. They need to know their self-worth in this world. People with the disability they don’t want to feel like a burden on their peers. It is important to make the individual with a disability feel as normal as possible even though they are not physical normal and are limited to what they can do we as a society should show them the same respect we want for

The disabled people and all races should have the same rights as we do because we're fellow Americans that want to stick together in this country. Let me give you an example, so if you were a different

152). Individuals with disabilities can make their injustices known to the general public by identifying the program of change, increasing the identity of their standing in the needs of their changes, and the standing of necessary changes in public policy on their deserved rights as citizens (Tilly & Wood, 2013). When the social movement of disability rights is established in a “political setting, modeling, communication, and collaboration facilitate the adoption and other connected settings” (Tilly & Wood, 2013, p. 153-154). The far-reaching impact of making social movements in the disability rights of individuals who are affected with in America is more pronounced within the political scene and when it becomes more of a national process of disability acceptance within the laws of America. Individuals are affected by disabilities can only be strengthened by knowing that collaboration between other individuals with disabilities, and the changes they need to succeed in life can be justified to the social movement

Disability Inequality is an issue which society often ignores but is an alarming topic. People tend to assume they are ill-equipped mentally since they are disabled physically. It has immense effect on people with disabilities.