Ed Roberts' Personal Life
This is the disease he contracted as a fourteen year old
What is polio?
The Center for Community Learning secured the first one of these in the country
What is a curb cut?
Not possible to do easily or conveniently; impractibale
What is infeasible?
Awad identifies this as one of the Middle East's biggest challenges
What is the cycle of violence?
Roberts dreamt of someday being the head of this
What is the Department of Rehabilitation?
This city is where the Disability Movement stormed and held a federal HEW building
What is San Francisco?
This is the device that Roberts used after contracting polio
What is the iron lung?
This happens in the future as anger is inspired
What is it is eliminated?
This person was integrating the University of Mississippi the same semester as Roberts
Who is James Meredith?
This organization was revolutionary as an advocacy-based organization
What was the Center for Independent Living?
This legislation was the first legal protection for people with disabilities
What is the Rehabilitation Act (Section 504)?
Name two ways in which anger can create change
What are creating productive futures, dealing with oppression and injustice, create new techniques of resistance, engaging in the right action?
Roberts at first did not receive his diploma because of these two classes
What are physical education and drivers' education?
The Disabled Students Program used these people as attendants
Who are conscientious objectors?
To give someone a label that marginalizes or limits them
What is to stigmatize?
Violence between people in conflict leads to this
What is the reflection of violence in individuals?
There are two movements that Roberts compare the disability movement
What are the women's movement and the racial civil rights movement?
The key concept to guarantee the freedom and equality of people with disabilities
What is economic freedom
It is the combination of two words, one who wants change but works within the system
What is an advocrat?
Awad suggests that without anger he is not this
What is human?