国立アメリカ歴史博物館のインスタグラム(amhistorymuseum) - 7月27日 09時27分

For over 20 days in April 1977, a group of roughly 150 disability rights activists took over the fourth floor of a federal building in San Francisco. They would not leave, they said, until President Jimmy Carter's administration agreed to implement a four-year-old law protecting the rights of people with disabilities.

Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 helped pave the way for the ADA. Under the law, no program receiving federal funds could discriminate against people with disabilities. But in 1977, the law had never properly been put into effect. Officials in Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford’s administrations developed but never implemented a set of regulations for the law.

Activist Judith Heumann explained, "Through the sit-in, we turned ourselves from being oppressed individuals into being empowered people. We demonstrated to the entire nation that disabled people could take control over our own lives and take leadership in the struggle for equality."

Kitty Cone was one of the principle organizers of the sit in. Curator Katherine Ott, speaks with Ren, a student, about Cone’s story.

Thirteen years after Cone organized this protest, the Americans with Disabilities Act would be signed on this day (July 26) in 1990.

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