An independent man

An independent man Ed Roberts and the fight for disability rights

Scot Danforth

Book - 2025

"Before Jonas Salk's vaccine, polio was a social death sentence. The disabled were expected to disappear into their limitations, pitied by those around them. This might have been the story of Ed Roberts, paralyzed and consigned to sleep in an iron lung. But Roberts insisted on what all people deserve: a full life. Scot Danforth deftly captures Roberts's adventurous personality and radical vision, chronicling his life from his student activist days at the University of California, Berkeley, in the early 1960s to his career highlights of establishing the pioneering Center for Independent Living and directing California's Department of Rehabilitation. By insisting that disabled persons are valuable members of society, and b...y translating his ideas into action, Roberts laid the ground for the Americans with Disabilities Act and the ongoing movement for equality"--

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Subjects
Roberts, Edward V., > 1939-1995.
People with disabilities > United States > Biography.
Biographies.
Genres
Biographies
Published
Oakland, California : University of California Press [2025]
Language
English
Main Author
Scot Danforth (author)
Physical Description
viii, 401 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN
9780520412644
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