Government
Apr. 26, 2007
Disability Rights 30 Years On
Forum Column - By Stan Yogi - Many of the protesters who occupied the San Francisco federal building in April 1977 could not walk. Others were blind or deaf. Few were prepared to stay overnight, let alone for weeks. But their political pressure succeeded that month when the Carter administration agreed to strong regulations to give people with disabilities limited legal protection against discrimination.
By Stan Yogi
Many of the protestors who occupied the San Francisco Federal Office Building on April 5, 1977, could not walk. Others were blind or deaf. Few were prepared to stay overnight, let alone for weeks.
But more than 100 people called the fourth floor of the imposing beaux-arts building on United Nations Plaza in San Francisco's Civic Center home for almost a month as ...
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