America's 504 Disability Rights Protests

Witness History

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🗓️ 13 April 2017

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

In April 1977, a group of disabled activists occupied a government building in San Francisco for nearly a month. The protesters were demanding the signing of Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, protecting disabled people from discrimination - it would be a breakthrough for the disability rights movement. Judith Heumann was one of the leaders of the sit-in.

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1:10.7	told by the people who were there. I'm Lucy Burns and today I'm taking you back to the 1970s
1:16.0	and a breakthrough in the American disability rights movement
1:19.0	when activists stage a sit-in in government buildings across the country, which lasted for nearly a month.
1:29.0	It's April 5th, 1977, and a group of disabled people are demonstrating outside the San Francisco Federal Building.
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