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10/6/2015 10:14:43 AM
SAINT PAUL - The Minnesota Governor's Council on Developmental Disabilities has released a new ebook celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). "Perspectives on the 25th Anniversary of the ADA" is a collection of interviews, speeches, and transcripts from disability rights advocates from the late 1940s to the present.
The ebook chronicles the nascent rights movement against inhumane institutionalization to the ongoing advocacy by people with disabilities, their families, and friends. It includes transcripts from former Minnesota Governor Luther Youngdahl, Judge Donovan W. Frank, and President George H.W. Bush - among many other advocates.
"This historic milestone of the ADA didn't happen overnight and it wasn't the work of one person or even a small group of people," said Colleen Wieck, Executive Director of the Minnesota Governor's Council on Developmental Disabilities. "For more than 50 years, thousands of people with disabilities, activists and advocates for disability rights, legislators, and the legal community worked tirelessly on many fronts for full inclusion in American society for people with disabilities."
"Perspectives on the 25th Anniversary of the ADA" can be accessed on the council's website at mn.gov/mnddc.
The Minnesota Governor's Council on Developmental Disabilities provides information, education, and training to build knowledge, develop skills, and change attitudes that will lead to increased independence, productivity, self determination, integration and inclusion (IPSII) for people with developmental disabilities and their families.
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