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History Resources

Disability History Resources

Beyond Affliction: The Disability History Project - National Public Radio site that contains documents from 1800 to present dealing with Americans with disabilities.

Disability History Museum - The Disability History Museum and Learning Resource Center currently catalogs text and images and plans to include an online museum and teacher's resource area.

Disability History: United Kingdom - This is a database of primary source material on Disability Activism and Self-Organisation in the UK from its start in the late 60's to the present day. It includes original propaganda material—Activism Newsletters, leaflets, and press statements - and photographs covering the thirty year lifespan of the Disabled People's Civil Rights Movement.

Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement - University of California at Berkeley’s Bancroft Library contains a rich collection of primary sources exploring the social and political history of the disability rights movement from the 1960s to the present, including oral histories with audio and video clips and archival papers.

Family Village Disability History - links to various disability history websites.

Media Images of Disability - A general resource compiled by Beth Haller, Assoc. Professor of Journalism at Towson University, MD.

The History of Disability - An article by Jayne Clapton and Jennifer Fitzgerald in Renaissance Universal's New Renaissance Magazine.

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