List of disability rights activists
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A disability-rights activist or disability-rights advocate is someone who works towards the equality of people with disabilities. Such a person is generally considered a member of the disability-rights movement and/or the independent-living movement. Names on this list should be sourced and their notability should come at least partly from being disability-rights activists.
(in alphabetical order by surname)
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[edit] A–M
- Javed Abidi – the Director of the National Centre for Promotion of Employment for Disabled People (NCPEDP) in India[1]
- Gabriela Brimmer – had cerebral palsy; life chronicled in the American-Mexican drama film Gaby: A True Story (1987), directed by Luis Mandoki[2]
- Jane Campbell, Baroness Campbell of Surbiton – had spinal muscular atrophy and was a commissioner of the British Disability Rights Commission[3]
- Judi Chamberlin – an American activist, leader, organizer, public speaker and educator in the psychiatric survivors movement; her political activism followed her involuntary confinement in a psychiatric facility in the 1960s[4][5] the author of On Our Own: Patient-Controlled Alternatives to the Mental Health System, which is a foundational text in the Mad Pride movement[6]
- James I Charlton – activist who feels disability is socially constructed[7]
- Claudia Cockburn – British activist for transportation accessibility[8]
- Tony Coelho – an epileptic; a former congressman from California who was the primary author and U.S. House sponsor of the Americans with Disabilities Act[9]
- Encarna Conde – President of the "Association of Andalucian Ataxia Groups"; did a pornographic film for partly activist reasons[10]
- Justin Whitlock Dart, Jr. – a co-founder of the American Association of People with Disabilities; had post-polio syndrome[11]
- Theresa Ducharme – founded the disabled-rights advocacy group People in Equal Participation Inc. in 1981; the organization's chair for many years thereafter[12]
- Edward Evans – Chairman of the Ministry of Health Health Advisory Committee on Handicapped Persons from 1949 to 1960[13]
- Fred Fay – American advocate for disability; paralyzed[14]
- Julie Fernandez – actress with osteogenesis imperfecta; founded The Disability Foundation; [15]active on presentation of the disabled[16][17]
- Catherine Frazee – a co-director of Ryerson University's Institute for Disability Studies Research and Education[18]
- Judy Fryd – founded group that became Mencap[19]
- Laura Hershey – protested MDA Labor Day Telethon; a feminist and born with a form of muscular dystrophy[20]
- Judith Heumann – wheelchair user who co-founded the World Institute on Disability; served as its co-director from 1983 to 1993; became the Special Advisor for International Disability Rights at the U.S. Department of State[21]
- Davina Ingrams, 18th Baroness Darcy de Knayth – British Paralympian and Representative peer[22]
- Harriet McBryde Johnson – a New Mobility "Person of the Year"; a disability-rights attorney; an anti-euthanasia activist[23]
- Debora Kaplan – the founder of the Disability Rights Centre; a former Executive Director of the World Institute on Disability (1996–2004)[24]
- Bonnie Sherr Klein – directed the documentary film Shameless: The ART of Disability (2006)[25][26]
- Paul K. Longmore – an American history professor and activist who was instrumental in the establishment of disability studies, and in changes to Social Security that granted people with disabilities more rights[27]
- Ron McCallum – member of Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; has been on the National People with Disabilities and Carers Council; Chair of Radio for the Print Handicapped of New South Wales Co-operative Ltd.; the first totally blind person to have been appointed to a full professorship at an Australian university[28]
- Anne McDonald – efforts for independence of the disabled and went to conferences on the matter[29]
- Kathryn McGee – an American activist who founded the National Association for Down Syndrome and the National Down Syndrome Congress; her daughter Tricia had Down syndrome[30]
- Alf Morris – introduced the Chronically Sick & Disabled Persons Act and first "Minister for the Disabled" in Great Britain or anywhere else[31]
[edit] N–Z
- Ari Ne'eman – co-creator of the Autistic Self Advocacy Network[32]
- Jean-Christophe Parisot – Founder of Collectif des Démocrates Handicapés[33]
- Richard Pimentel – active in workplace rights for the disabled[34]
- Victor Pineda – the youngest government delegate to participate in the drafting of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities[35]
- Alan Reich – a wheelchair user who founded the National Organization on Disability[36]
- Gilberto Rincón Gallardo – Mexican politician with shortened arms who worked on disability issues[37]
- Edward Roberts – the first quadriplegic to attend the University of California, Berkeley; his fight for access at Berkeley spread into seeking access in the community and the development of the first Centre for Independent Living[38][39]
- Sandra Schnur – director of the New York City Half-fare Program for the Handicapped; wrote an early guide for disabled in the city; had quadriplegia[40][41]
- Max Starkloff (1937–2010) – founded Paraquad, one of the first independent living centers in the United States, as well as the National Council on Independent Living and the Starkloff Disability Institute; one of the key advocates who brought the Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990[42][43][44]
- John Tyler – parked his wheelchair in front of Metro buses in Seattle, Washington, in the late 1970s and performed other actions to make sure that the proper wheelchair lifts, not the "folding camel" lifts, would be put onto the public transit buses; the original lifts could potentially dump people in wheelchairs, and also break down more easily; after his death from suicide on December 24, 1984, he was remembered at Center Park in Seattle, which was the first apartment building built in the U.S. specifically for people in wheelchairs[45]
- Chris Underhill – a founder of Thrive and Action on Disability and Development[46][47]
- Ron Whyte – playwright who was on the President's Committee for the Employment of the Handicapped[48]
- Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah – Ghanaian cyclist with one leg who rode across Ghana to raise awareness and works to increase the number of wheelchairs in his country[49]
[edit] See also
[edit] References
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- ^ "Film: 'Gaby,' Story of Determination". The New York Times. October 30, 1987.
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- ^ Hevesi, Denis (January 30, 2010). "Judi Chamberlin, 65, Advocate for Mental Health Patients". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/31/us/31chamberlin.html. Retrieved March 1, 2011.
- ^ "Interview: Judi Chamberlin Interviewed by Will Hall and Cheryl Alexander" (video; requires Adobe Flash Player). Madness Radio. February 8, 2006. http://www.madnessradio.net/madness-radio-judi-chamberlin-psychiatric-survivor-movement. Retrieved March 3, 2011.
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- ^ "Meet Tony Coelho". Partnership To Improve Patient Care.
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- ^ Switzer, Jacqueline Vaughn (2003). Disabled Rights: American Disability Policy and the Fight for Equality. Georgetown University Press.
- ^ "Disabled Want Their Say at Appeal", Winnipeg Free Press. January 3, 1995. The organization had forty members in 1995.
- ^ Stenton, Michael; Lees, Stephens (1981). Who's Who of British Members of Parliament: Volume IV, 1945–1979. Brighton: Harvester Press. p. 111. ISBN 0-85527-335-6.
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- ^ "Employees with Disabilities Are Expert Learners".
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- ^ Nelson, Valerie J. (August 15, 2010). "Paul K. Longmore Dies at 64; Leading Disability Scholar and Activist". Los Angeles Times. http://articles.latimes.com/2010/aug/15/local/la-me-paul-longmore-20100816.
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- ^ "A History of Kathryn McGee and the founding of MDC and NDSC"
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- ^ [12]. Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.
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- ^ "Ed Roberts, Disability-Rights Leader and Cal Alum, Gets His Own State Day". University of California, Berkeley.
- ^ [14]. Partners in Making Your Case: Changing the System.
- ^ Klemesrud, Judy (May 25, 1979). "Disabled Women: A Conference on Discrimination; 'To Effect Change' Other Barriers Mentioned Veterans Get Priority". The New York Times.
- ^ Rusk, Howard A. (M.D.) (October 19, 1958). "Guides to Good Health; Survey of New Publications of Interest To Handicapped Persons and Others". The New York Times.
- ^ "Max Starkloff, Pioneer In Independent Living For Disabled, Dies At 73". Shots (blog of NPR).
- ^ "Max Starkloff Dies; Paraquad Founder Crusaded for Disabled". St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
- ^ Louis, St. (December 27, 2010). "Paraquad Founder Starkloff Dies at 73". http://www.bizjournals.com/stlouis/news/2010/12/27/paraquad-founder-starkloff-dies-at-73.html.
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