Primary Documents

“Agatha Tiegel (Hanson): American Deaf Woman.” American Sign Language Dictionary, https://www.handspeak.com/study/index.php?id=134. Accessed 9 December 2017.

“An Open Letter to the Legislatures of Nebraska, Kansas and Colorado.” Kansas Memory, http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/206221/page/1. Accessed 9 December 2017.

“Cheryl Marie Wade.” The Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement Oral History Project, 2006, http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/collections/drilm/collection/items/wade.html. Accessed 9 December 2017.

“Corbett O’Toole.” The Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement Oral History Project, 2008, http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/collections/drilm/collection/items/otoole.html. Accessed 9 December 2017.

Disability March. https://disabilitymarch.com/. Accessed 9 December 2017.

“Disability March.” Facebook. https://www.facebook.com/groups/1330503997034377/. Accessed 9 December 2017.

Johnson, Harriet McBryde. “Unspeakable Conversations.” The New York Times Magazine, 16 February 2003, http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/16/magazine/unspeakable-conversations.html. Accessed 9 December 2017.

“Judith Heumann.” The Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement Oral History Project, 2012, http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/collections/drilm/collection/items/heumann.html. Accessed 9 December 2017.

“Kitty Cone.” The Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement Oral History Project, 2005, http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/collections/drilm/collection/items/cone.html. Accessed 9 December 2017.

“Here by Cheryl Marie Wade.” YouTube, YouTube, 8 Feb. 2015, www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-lsnkhTtLo&t=20s. Accessed 9 December 2017.

Hershey, Laura. “From Poster Child to Protester.” Independent Living Institute Library, 1993, https://www.independentliving.org/docs4/hershey93.html. Accessed 9 December 2017.

Keller, Helen. “Knights of the Blind, delivered before the Lions Club at Washington, D.C. (October 19, 1927).” American Foundation of the Blind, http://www.afb.org/info/knights-of-the-blind-delivered-before-the-lions-club-at-washington-dc-october-19-1927/5. Accessed 9 December 2017.

—. The Story of My Life. Modern Library, 100th Anniversary edition, 2004.

“Mary Lou Breslin.” The Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement Oral History Project, 2004, http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/collections/drilm/collection/items/breslin.html. Accessed 9 December 2017.

Packard, Elizabeth P. Modern Persecution, or, Insane Asylums Unveiled: as demonstrated by the report of the investigating committee of the legislature of Illinois. Hartford, 1874. Internet Archive, https://archive.org/details/modernpersecutio02pack. Accessed 9 December 2017.

O’Toole, Corbett Joan. “Sex, Disability and Motherhood: Access to Sexuality for Disabled Mothers.” Disability Studies Quarterly, vol. 22, no. 4, 2002, http://dsq-sds.org/article/view/374/495.

“Our fight for disability rights and why we’re not done yet, Judith Heumann.” YouTube, YouTube, 10 January 2017, https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=ABFpTRlJUuc. Accessed 9 December 2017.

Russell, Marta. Beyond Ramps: Disability at the End of the Social Contract. Common Courage Press, 1998.

Sonya Huber. https://sonyahuber.com/. Accessed 9 December 2017.

Terry, Alice T. “An Autobiography of My Childhood.” Silent Worker, vol. 33, no. 4, 1920, pp. 47-49.

—. “Our Pursuit of Happiness.” Proceedings of the Eleventh (Special) Convention of the National Association of the Deaf, July 19-24, 1915, pp. 76-80.

“The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.” U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, https://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/history/35th/1990s/ada.html. Accessed 9 December 2017.

“The Women’s Conference 2006: Minerva Awards – Marilyn Hamilton.” YouTube, YouTube, 19 August 2008, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7RDnbYQx2I. Accessed 9 December 2017.

Waxman, Barbara Faye. “Hatred: The Unacknowledged Dimension in Violence Against Disabled People.” Sexuality and Disability, vol. 9, no. 3, 1991, pp. 185-199.

—. “It’s Time to Politicize Our Sexual Oppression.” The Ragged Edge: The Disability Experience from the Pages of the First Fifteen Years of the Disability Rag, edited by Barrett Shaw, The Advocado Press, 1994, pp. 82-90.

—. “Sexual Imagery of Physically Disabled Women: Erotic? Perverse? Sexist?” Sexuality and Disability, vol. 17, no. 3, 1999, pp. 277-282.

Secondary Research

ADAPT – Free Our People! http://adapt.org/. Accessed 9 December 2017.

Anderson, Tre’vell. “Marlee Matlin remains a champion for disabled actors, 30 years after winning her Oscar.” Los Angeles Times, 24 February 2017, http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-marlee-matlin-oscars-20170202-story.html. Accessed 9 December 2017.

Baynton, Douglas C. “Disability and the Justification of Inequality in American History.” The Disability Studies Reader, edited by Lennard J. Davis, Fourth edition, Routledge, 2013, pp. 17-33.

“Biography.” Linda Bove: Beautiful, Influential, Deaf Actress, http://meagansprojectlindabove.weebly.com/biography.html. Accessed 9 December 2017.

“Buck vs. Bell Trial.” Image Archive on the American Eugenics Movement, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, http://www.eugenicsarchive.org/html/eugenics/static/themes/39.html. Accessed 9 December 2017.

Burch, Susan. “Alice Taylor Terry.” Encyclopedia of American Disability History, Edited by Susan Burch, Facts On File, 2009.

—. “Elaine Ostroff.” Encyclopedia of American Disability History, Edited by Susan Burch, Facts On File, 2009.

—. Signs of Resistance: American Deaf Cultural History, 1900 to World War II. New York University Press, 2004.

Carlisle, Linda V. Elizabeth Packard: A Noble Fight. University of Illinois Press, 2010.

Clark, Laurel L. “Kitty (Curtis) Cone.” Encyclopedia of American Disability History, Edited by Susan Burch, Facts On File, 2009.

Creamer, Doborah Beth. “Laura Hershey.” Encyclopedia of American Disability History, Edited by Susan Burch, Facts On File, 2009.

“Disability Benefits.” Social Security, https://www.ssa.gov/benefits/disability/. Accessed 9 December 2017.

Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund. https://dredf.org/. Accessed 9 December 2017.

“Gerri Jewell” My Child at CerebralPalsy.org, http://www.cerebralpalsy.org/inspiration/artists/geri-jewell. Accessed 9 December 2017.

Gitter, Elisabeth. “Laura Bridgman.” Encyclopedia of American Disability History, Edited by Susan Burch, Facts On File, 2009.

Headley, Joan L. “Independent Living: The Role of Gini Laurie.” Post-Polio Health International, Post-Polio International, October 1997, http://www.post-polio.org/about/ginilaurie1.html. Accessed 9 December 2017.

“Incidents in the Life of a Blind Girl: The Memoir of Mary L. Day.” Future Reflections, vol. 30, no. 2, 2011. https://nfb.org/images/nfb/publications/fr/fr30/2/fr3002tc.htm. Accessed 9 December 2017.

Kirchner, Corinne and Liat Ben-Moshe. “Gini Laurie.” Encyclopedia of American Disability History, Edited by Susan Burch, Facts On File, 2009.

Lombardo, Paul A. “Buck v. Bell.” Encyclopedia of American Disability History, Edited by Susan Burch, Facts On File, 2009.

Malhorta, Ravi. “Honoring Marta Russell (1951-2013).” Solidarity: A Socialist, Feminist, Anti-Racist Organization, March/April 2014, https://www.solidarity-us.org/node/4113. Accessed 9 December 2017.

Newman, Sara. “Corbett O’Toole.” Encyclopedia of American Disability History, Edited by Susan Burch, Facts On File, 2009.

—. “Mary Lou Breslin.” Encyclopedia of American Disability History, Edited by Susan Burch, Facts On File, 2009.

O’Brien, Ruth. Crippled Justice: The History of Modern Disability Policy in the Workplace. University of Chicago Press, 2001.

Ott, Katherine. “Marilyn Hamilton.” Encyclopedia of American Disability History, Edited by Susan Burch, Facts On File, 2009.

Owen, Mary Jane. “Sit-In Protest at the Health, Education and Welfare Department.” Encyclopedia of American Disability History, Edited by Susan Burch, Facts On File, 2009.

Patchett, Ann. “The Face of Pain.” New York Magazine. http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/people/features/n_8396/. Accessed 9 December 2017.

Pence, Roy. “Patrisha A. Wright.” Encyclopedia of American Disability History, Edited by Susan Burch, Facts On File, 2009.

Nielsen, Kim E. A Disability History of the United States. Beacon Press, 2012.

—. “Helen Keller.” Encyclopedia of American Disability History, Edited by Susan Burch, Facts On File, 2009.

—. The Radical Lives of Helen Keller. New York University Press, 2004.

Parry, Manon S. “Dorothea Dix (1802-1887).” American Journal Public Health, vol. 96, no. 4, April 2006, pp. 624-625.

Reaume, Geoffrey. “Elizabeth Packard.” Encyclopedia of American Disability History, Edited by Susan Burch, Facts On File, 2009.

Robinson, O. “Agatha Tiegel Hanson.”Encyclopedia of American Disability History, Edited by Susan Burch, Facts On File, 2009.

“Sara Manguso.” Poetry Foundation, https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/sarah-manguso. Accessed 9 December 2017.

Sapinsley, Barbara. The Private Wars of Mrs. Packard: The Dramatic Story of a Nineteenth-Century Feminist, Kodansha Amer Inc, 1995.

Scotch, Richard K. “Judy (Judith) Heumann.” Encyclopedia of American Disability History, Edited by Susan Burch, Facts On File, 2009.

—. “Section 504.” Encyclopedia of American Disability History, Edited by Susan Burch, Facts On File, 2009.

Shapiro, Joseph P. No Pity: People with Disabilities Forging a New Civil Rights Movement. Broadway Books, 1994.

Sobsey, Dick. “Barbara Waxman Fiduccia.” Encyclopedia of American Disability History, Edited by Susan Burch, Facts On File, 2009.

Taylor, Steven J. “Dorothea Dix.” Encyclopedia of American Disability History, Edited by Susan Burch, Facts On File, 2009.

“The Independent Living Movement and Disability Rights.” The Vermont Center for Independent Living, http://www.vcil.org/resources/pas-toolkit/the-independent-living-movement-and-disability-rights, Accessed 9 December 2017.

Thrower, Terri Lynne. “Cheryl Marie Wade.” Encyclopedia of American Disability History, Edited by Susan Burch, Facts On File, 2009.

“Visionary Leader — June 2014: Agatha Tiegel Hanson.” Gallaudet University, http://www.gallaudet.edu/about/history-and-traditions/agatha-tiegel-hanson. Accessed 9 December 2017.

“What is MS?” National Multiple Sclerosis Society, https://www.nationalmssociety.org/What-is-MS. Accessed 9 December 2017.

Wilson, Daniel J. “Harriet McBryde Johnson.” Encyclopedia of American Disability History, Edited by Susan Burch, Facts On File, 2009.

Women Enabled International. https://www.womenenabled.org/. Accessed 9 December 2017.

Media Attributions

Background Images (in order of appearance)

“Untitled Image of Disability Protest.” PBS, http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/films/lives-worth-living/.

Tusler, Anthony. “Protesters demonstrating in favor of 504.” Atlas Obscura, https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/504-sit-in-san-francisco-1977-disability-rights-advocacy.

Olin, Tom. “ADAPT protest, Las Vegas, 1994.” EveryBody: An Artifact History of Disability in America, https://everybody.si.edu/media/737.

In-Text Images (in order of appearance)

Lebya, John. “Untitled Image of ADAPT Arrest in Colorado.” The Denver Post, 29 June 2017, http://www.denverpost.com/2017/06/29/cory-gardner-office-protest-removal/.

“Untitled Image of Gini Laurie.” PolioPlace, http://www.polioplace.org/people/gini-laurie.

Timeline Images (in order of appearance)

“Lithograph of Elizabeth Ware Packard.” Historic Heroines, courtesy of Illinois Sate Historical Society, 28 December 2015, http://historicheroines.org/2015/12/28/elizabeth-packard/.

“Portrait of Agatha Tiegel Hanson.” Gallaudet University, courtesy of Gallaudet Archives, June 2014, http://www.gallaudet.edu/about/history-and-traditions/agatha-tiegel-hanson.

“Alice Taylor (Terry) from Silent Worker (1920).” US Deaf History, https://usdeafhistory.com/people/.

“Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan.” Library of Congress, digital ID cph.3a15420, 1897, http://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/cph.3a15420/.

“Untitled Image from 1977 HEW Sit-In.” CNN Politics, http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/23/politics/gallery/famous-sit-ins/index.html.

“Cover of The Ragged Edge.” The Advocado Press: The Disability Experience in America, http://www.advocadopress.org/the-ragged-edge/.

“Untitled Portrait of Laura Hershey.” Thought Snax, https://thoughtsnax.com/2010/11/29/laura-hershey/.

Nichols, Meriah. “Untitled Portrait of Corbett O’Toole.” Two Thirds of the Planet, 13 January 2016, http://www.twothirdsoftheplanet.com/cool-cat-corbett-otoole/.

Rivera, Sarah. “Untitled Portrait of Marta Russell.” Zocalo, 10 July 2009, http://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2009/07/10/marta-russell/personalities/in-the-green-room/.

“Untitled Portrait of Harriet McBryde Johnson.” SC Prog Blog, 5 June 2008, https://www.scpronet.com/wordpress/2008/06/05/charleston-lawyer-and-activist-harriet-mcbryde-johnson-1957-2008/.