Disability Rights as Civil Rights: The ADA and the Limits of Analogy

The year was 1986 and Americans Disabled for Accessible Public Transit (ADAPT), a grassroots organization widely considered the radical wing of the disability movement, had come to Detroit to confront the American Public Transit Association, which was holding its big trade convention there. ADAPT ha...

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1. Verfasser:	Heyer, Katharina C
Format:	Buchkapitel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Ableism Behavioral sciences Civil law Civil rights Civil rights movements Disabilities Disability law Disability rights Employment discrimination Gender bias Gender discrimination Gender studies Health sciences Human rights movements Human societies Law Legal rights Medical conditions Property law Psychology Real property law Reasonable accommodation Social attitudes Social discrimination Social movements Social psychology Social sciences Sociology
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Zusammenfassung:	The year was 1986 and Americans Disabled for Accessible Public Transit (ADAPT), a grassroots organization widely considered the radical wing of the disability movement, had come to Detroit to confront the American Public Transit Association, which was holding its big trade convention there. ADAPT had asked Rosa Parks to lead its parade through downtown Detroit. For years ADAPT activists had been using Rosa Parks as their icon—often appearing at protests with name tags reading “My name is Rosa Parks”—trying to make the public connect their protest with the civil rights movement. “A civil rights movement was born when