Links to non-PAI resources

Disability History

The Minnesota Developmental Disabilities Council has created a Parallels in Time II web site, which features a multimedia history collection about the John F. Kennedy administration's role in initiating new programs for people with disabilities.

California Legislative History - www.uchastings.edu/library/index.html - Research guide has useful information on how to research California legislative history. Click on Research Guides and then on California Legislative History.

Disability History Museum - www.disabilitymuseum.org/ - an online museum and library of disability-related articles, illustrations, photographs, some of which date back nearly 200 years.

Disability History: Theory and Practice - San Francisco State University's Institute on Disability, the Disability History Association, and the Disability History Group of the United Kingdom invite submissions for papers to be given at a conference at San Francisco State University, 31 July-3 August 2008.

“Why I Burned My Book and Other Essays on Disability” - Understanding disability as a major variety of human experience, Longmore urges us to establish it as a category of social, political, and historical analysis in much the same way that race, gender, and class already have been. (Philadelphia: Temple University, 2003), 288 pp.

Let’s Get Together, Inc. - www.lgtinc.org  Mark Johnson, nationally recognize disability rights advocate, New Mobility Magazine's 2001 Person of the Year, and 2007 Betts Award Winner, created this new website dedicated to the pioneers of the movement and the people and groups making a difference.

PAI's history, role and funding - In 1975, after television news exposed horrific abuse and neglect at Willowbrook, a state institution for people with mental retardation on Staten Island, New York Senator Jacob Javits successfully pushed Congress to mandate and fund Protection and Advocacy systems in each state.

Road to Freedom - roadtofreedom.wordpress.com The web site for The Road To Freedom bus tour, a national awareness campaign inspired by the historic journey of Justin and Yoshiko Dart to mobilize support for passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), launched its year-long, cross-country bus journey launched from Washington , DC on November 15th, 2006 .