1877-1920
This argument explains why the education system was unable to provide support to partially deaf students?
What is schools lacked an understanding of such disabilities and what the proper accommodation was like?
This Supreme Court justice wrote the 1927 opinion in the case of Buck v. Bell.
Who was Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr?
This U.S. Department of Education law/history source focuses on expanded educational rights for disabled students beginning in 1975.
What is the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)?
This explains how vocational education was necessary towards everyday jobs as disabilities lead to either permanent or temporary exclusion for workers.
What is it allowed them time to heal from the disabilities that they received and get the proper education on how to adapt and adhere to the challenges?
This movement began in the early 1960’s at the University of California.
What is the Independent Living Movement?
The 1973 federal law, especially Section 504, helped disability issues toward civil rights by banning discrimination in federally funded programs.
What is the Rehabilitation Act of 1973?
This would be considered an issue within the effort of creating vocational education opportunities for wage workers towards the economy.
What is it would slow down the economy as more time is spent on working with vocational education and helping individuals integrate back into society.
This organization was founded in 1940 by Jacobus TenBroek.
What is the National Federation of the Blind?
This major theme from the 1966-2010 research says disabled people were often accepted more when they could meet standards of work, productivity or public contributions.
What is the idea that “Americanness” was tied to economic usefulness?
This person spearheaded a similar law in Texas following the passing of the 1907 Indiana Eugenics law. (Explanation Required)
Who was Dr. Ferdinand Eugene Daniel?
Explanation: Dr. F.E. Daniel was a eugenicist who spent the late 1800s and early 1900s advocating for laws meant to improve the genetic stock of Texas. While support for these laws was reasonably popular among both voters and politicians, they never passed largely due to their unpopularity among Texas Catholics, Mexican immigrants, and owners of large farms and ranches who benefitted from cheap labor. While legally unsuccessful, his work helped popularize “Better Baby” competitions in Houston that made eugenics socially acceptable.
This act was passed by the congress that gave disabled people the same protections as guaranteed by the Civil Rights Act of 1964. (Explanation Required)
What is The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990?
Explanation: This act, considered the most thorough disability rights protection act, was in large part the accomplishment of University of Houston activist Justin Dart. The act protected disabled Americans from work discrimination, similar to the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Following the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, government agencies have been criticized for failing to accurately count the number of people affect by certain conditions generally accepted to be disabilities, resulting in the count for people with disabilities being artificially lowered. This kind of disability is most likely to be undercounted.(Explanation Required)
What is disabilities acquired after birth and outside the workplace?
Explanation: Recognized disabilities, such as diabetes and HIV/AIDS that are commonly acquired in adulthood, are often overlooked, leading to certain treatments or accommodations required by the Americans with Disabilities Act failing to be provided in many public buildings and institutions.
The first state to introduce engines law against disability people. (Explanation Required)
What is Indiana?
Explanation: In the late 1800s, state officials believed that certain traits, like propensity towards violence, learning disabilities, and more were inheritable. To combat the spread of these traits, in 1907, physicians were given the right to sterilize patients they found mentally unfit.
This Supreme Court case found that forced sterilization of mentally disabled people did not violate the Constitution. (Explanation Required)
What is Buck v. Bell?
Explanation: This case was brought upon by the forced euthanization of a mentally disabled woman, Carrie Buck, by Dr Albert Sidney Priddy. He was able to do this because Virginia had passed certain statutes allowing public eugenic practices. The case was settled in favor of Priddy and his ally, John Bell, declaring that Virginia’s laws were not a violation of the 14th amendment.
This major event in the 20th century drastically increased both the number of disabled Americans and the demand for the labor of disabled Americans. (Explanation Required)
What is World War II?
Explanation:The war forced working men to the battlefront, opening in-demand work opportunities for people who already had disabilities. Soldiers who obtained disabilities would go on to make use of government programs and veterans’ benefits to obtain work after the war. After peace was won, disabled Americans found themselves the first to get fired at their new positions so that able bodied men could return to their positions. This galvanized disabled rights associations, creating a greater desire for political action.