- April 03, 2018 We've Come a Long Way, or Have We? In July of 1990, the America n Disability Act was passed, as the culmination of many years, many people fighting to gain rights just as others before them had fought for civil rights of Negroes. It was another bitter fight, and perhaps few if any lives were lost, but the causes were universal; people wanting to be treated as equals in their access to schooling, to jobs, to entry into public places they often could not go because their wheelchairs were not accommodated by those places, or there were no places if they did manage to get in where they could sit comfortably without being stared at, or having people say things that they could hear about their challenges. And there were barriers of curbs and bumps that these people had to try to maneuver around without falling or otherwise being injured. Today, the situation has reverted in large part to the way it was BEFORE the American Disability Act. Children who ha
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