Disability History

• Texas Disability History Timeline
  
  
• "From Isolation to Participation: A History of Disability in Texas"
  This publication covers the history of Texans with disabilities from the time of the Texas Revolution to the present day.
  
  
• Famous Texans with Disabilities
  This page contains links to articles in the "Handbook of Texas" about Texas heroes with disabilities, from Erastus "Deaf" Smith to Barbara Jordan.
  
  
• Texas Disability History Presentation [670KB MS Powerpoint]
  This presentation is a disability history quiz.
  
  
• 2007 Disability Perspectives

National Disability History

• Americans with Disabilities Act History
  In 2000, the Governor's Committee published a chart showing advances in ADA compliance over the first ten years since the law's passage.
  
  
• Smithsonian Exhibit on Disability History
  A "virtual exhibition" on the disability rights movement.
  

Related Sites of Interest

• University of California at Berkeley. The Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement
  A rich collection of personal papers and the records of key disability organizations join oral histories comprising an in-depth research resource of the Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/collections/drilm/
  
  
• Oral Histories of Texans with Disabilities