The Minnesota Governor's Council on Developmental Disabilities
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Disability Rights Movement Exhibit
Opens July 6 At Smithsonian

The National Museum of American History, http://www.americanhistory.si.edu, Smithsonian Institution will open an exhibit entitled "The Disability Rights Movement" on July 6th, 2000. Marking the tenth anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the exhibit examines the history of grass roots activism by people with disabilities, their friends, and families to secure the civil rights guaranteed to all Americans.

The exhibit consists of four showcases and is innovative in its design and aims for maximum accessibility. Web-based kiosks will provide visitors with alternative formats to experience the exhibit. The kiosks are prototypes for versions that will eventually be available to museums and other cultural institutions.

For information, call 202-357-2700 (Voice) or 202-357-1729 (TTY).

 

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The GCDD is funded under the provisions of P.L. 106-402. The federal law also provides funding to the Minnesota Disability Law Center, the state Protection and Advocacy System, and to the Institute on Community Integration, the state University Center for Excellence. The Minnesota network of programs works to increase the IPSII of people with developmental disabilities and families into community life.

This project was supported, in part by grant number 2401MNSCDD, from the U.S. Administration for Community Living, Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, D.C. 20201. Grantees undertaking projects with government sponsorship are encouraged to express freely their findings and conclusions. Points of view or opinions do not, therefore, necessarily represent official ACL policy.

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