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Chapter 1 | Change, Not Charity: The Americans with Disabilities Act | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE | PBS

View a version with extended audio description here: https://youtu.be/_ihhliKjbR8 View a version with on-screen ASL interpretation here: https://youtu.be/qpeGSBa74ss By the 1970s, one in four Americans lived with a disability. Yet, facing discrimination and arcane laws, only a fraction held jobs and many were institutionalized or lived in poverty. In 1972, a shocking exposé of the […]