Denise McQuade

Disability rights activist, New York City; early activist in Disabled in Action; executive director, Brooklyn Center for Independence of the Disabled, Inc., 1984-1992; associate city planner for paratransit, NYC, 1992- Read oral history: New York Activists and Leaders in the Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement: Vol I View video clip: On disability rights as a civil rights issue, and the Jerry Lewis telethon View video clip: On the defining issues for the disability movement in the 1970s in New York

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