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Featured Oral History Project at UC Berkeley Library
Listen to this post: University of California, Berkeley is widely-known as a very accessible college campus. The city of Berkeley has been called one of the most physically accessible cities around. After all, the first Center for Independent Living was founded there by disability activists in 1972. One of the more widely known activists in…
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Featured Oral History Project at Krempels Center
Listen to this post: The Krempels Center was founded by a peer with traumatic brain injury who saw how far-reaching our community’s needs are: from financial hardship to isolation. The organization has grown over the years and provides many types of supports to folks with brain injury and their families and care partners. Members of…
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Featured Oral History Project on Disability Activism: It’s Our Story
Listen to this post: It’s pretty hard to come across first-hand stories of disability and disability history in the media. So I was super excited to find the online, interactive oral history project called “It’s Our Story: Answers From America’s Disability Activists” at www.itsourstory.org. It’s Our Story is a digital archive of more than 1,000 interviews…