And remember, there was a time when we, this country, would kill people who were born with certain disabilities.

Here you are fighting for your very life. You're not just fighting for some little thing, you're fighting for your life.

There were so many different blind people and disabled persons whom came from so many directions who didn't know how they were

going to eat the next day, didn't know what was next coming down the road, either police

or anybody else, didn't care if anything else went good or bad. They wanted to make sure

that they were a part

that made sure that the government heard their voices,

their hearts, and their minds.

And they did that, if anything, they did that. The

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So this is part two of our Death Panel history of the Section 504 sit-ins, which is an early

moment of protest in the Disability Civil Rights Movement

that started on April 5, 1977, and lasted about a month.

And this month, April 22, is the 45th anniversary of this historic occupation.

In part one, we talked about the four years of bureaucratic debate that went on

through three presidential administrations over what was really the value, or if there was value,

in providing civil rights to disabled people. And we talked at length about how the agency

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