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Bertschi School, in partnership with Disability Rights Washington, presents PORTRAIT OF THE WHOLE PERSON to celebrate disability history and culture. Through the art show, we hope to heighten awareness of the disability rights movement and culture with the broader community.…
In which ways was FDR’s disability kept quiet during his presidency?
a. FDR tried to hide his disability from the public during press conferences and speeches.
b. FDR limited the photos that were taken while he was in his wheelchair.
c. Both of the above.
d. Neither of the above.
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Two women known as L.C. and E.W. requested a discharge from a Georgia State Regional Hospital in Atlanta where they had voluntarily housed in the psychiatric unit for some time. This led to a lawsuit and the U.S. Supreme Court decision known as Olmstead. When was Olmstead decided? 1993, 1995,1999 or 2000.
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Helen Keller is the subject of movies, speeches, punch lines – an icon and symbol of disability to the general public. How well do you know her story?
True or False?
1. Helen Keller supported forced sterilization for “unfit” people.
2. Helen Keller was an avid campaigner for universal suffrage.
3. Helen Keller was a member of the Socialist Party of America.
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Bertschi School, in partnership with Disability Rights Washington, presents PORTRAIT OF THE WHOLE PERSON to celebrate disability history and culture. Through the art show, we hope to heighten awareness of the disability rights movement and culture with the broader community.…
“ A crime against motherhood”: A Mother’s Day op-ed in the L.A. Times written by the daughter of a Washington State University Librarian who was involuntarily sterilized immediately after she gave birth to her first baby in 1972 because …
Alicia Alonso Martinez is a well-known ballerina. It is staggering that she can still be a ballerina even though her disability is being a practically blind person. Alicia was born on December 21, 1920 in Havana, Cuba. She is now …
Harold John Russell was born in Nova Scotia in 1914. His family moved to Cambridge Massachusetts after his father died in 1919.
When training in paratroopers at camp MacKall NC on June 6th, 1944, the TNT he was using exploded …
Disability in Ancient Rome
True or False:
The percentage of people with disabilities in Ancient Rome was greater than it is now.