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President Nixon with Peter Helteme, 1971 Easter Seal Child and family. Easterseals (formerly known as Easter Seals; [1] founded in 1919 as the National Society for Crippled Children) [2] is an American 501(c)(3) nonprofit providing disability services, with additional support areas serving veterans and military families, seniors, and caregivers.
"SDS confers the President's Award for artists and activists who embody the goals of the Society, reiterating our commitment to all kinds of work in disability studies. SDS recognizes Judy Heumann for her five-decade career as a disabled activist who has changed the lives of every single disabled person in the United States and across the globe.
The CIL provided a model for a new kind of community organization designed to address the needs and concerns of people with a wide range of disabilities. A major project in Berkeley, California led by Roberts and others at the CIL led to curb cuts up and down Telegraph and Shattuck Avenues creating an extensive path of travel. [ 7 ]
1947 – The President's Committee on National Employ the Physically Handicapped Week was held in Washington, D.C. Publicity campaigns, coordinated by state and local committees, emphasized the competence of people with disabilities and used movie trailers, billboards, radio and television ads to convince the public that it was good business to ...
The standards for determining employment discrimination under the Rehabilitation Act are the same as those used in title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act. [1] President Richard Nixon signed H.R. 8070 into law on September 26, 1973 after he had vetoed two previous versions. [2]
Edgar Daniel Nixon (July 12, 1899 – February 25, 1987), known as E. D. Nixon, was an American civil rights leader and union organizer in Alabama who played a crucial role in organizing the landmark Montgomery bus boycott there in 1955. The boycott highlighted the issues of segregation in the South, was upheld for more than a year by black ...
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The Nixon Presidency: Power and Politics in Turbulent Times (1990). Greene, John Robert. The Limits of Power: The Nixon and Ford Administrations (1992). Gellman, Irwin. The Contender: Richard Nixon: The Congress Years, 1946 to 1952 (1999) Gellman, Irwin. The President and the Apprentice: Eisenhower and Nixon, 1952-1961 (2015) Kraus, Sidney.