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The 504 Sit-in was a disability rights protest that began on April 5, 1977. People with disabilities and the disability community occupied federal buildings in the United States in order to push the issuance of long-delayed regulations regarding Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 .
Benjamin Cowins during a 1961 sit-in at McCrory's lunch counter in Tallahassee A sit-in for climate action in Melbourne, Australia Human rights sit-in at the Taiwanese executive assembly. A sit-in or sit-down is a form of direct action that involves one or more people occupying an area for a protest, often to promote political, social, or ...
The testimonies of Ed Roberts along with other activists were so compelling that the representative from the Department of Health Education Welfare joined the sit-in. After relentlessly fighting for their rights, section 504 was signed into law and became fully implemented under President Nixon.
Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 states (in part): . No otherwise qualified individual with a disability in the United States, as defined in section 705(20) of this title, shall, solely by reason of her or his disability, be excluded from the participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving federal financial ...
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This sit-in, led by Heumann and organized by Cone, lasted 28 days, until May 4, 1977, with about 125 to 150 people refusing to leave. [31] It is the longest sit-in at a federal building, as of 2021. [32] Califano signed both the Education of All Handicapped Children regulations and the Section 504 regulations on April 28, 1977.