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Organizations
Alliance for Technology Access
American Coalition of Citizens with Disabilities (ACCD)
Boston Center for Independent Living
California Department of Rehabilitation
Center for Accessible Technology
Center for Independent Living, Berkeley
Cowell Residence Program, University of California, Berkeley
Disabled in Action (DIA)
Disabled Students' Program, University of California, Berkeley
Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund (DREDF), Berkeley office
Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund (DREDF), Washington DC office
Independent Living Centers and the National Council on Independent Living
Keys to Introducing Disability in Society (KIDS)
World Institute on Disability (WID)
Alliance for Technology Access
A network of regional centers helping people with disabilities to use assistive technology, the Alliance for Technology Access grew out of the Berkeley-based Disabled Children's Computer Group. The DRILM collection includes the Alliance's organizational records and an oral history with the founder.
Alliance for Technology Access
Jacquelyn Brand
American Coalition of Citizens with Disabilities (ACCD)
A coalition of national, state, and local disability organizations active from 1975 to 1983, ACCD brought a cross-disability perspective to the movement and took a leading role in the national effort to force implementation of section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and passage of the Education of all Handicapped Children Act of 1975. Oral histories with several founders and leaders in ACCD are in the DRILM collection.
American Coalition of Citizens with Disabilities (ACCD)
Anna Fay
Fred Fay
Lex Frieden
Deborah Kaplan
Pat Pound
Andrea Schein
Boston Center for Independent Living
The first independent living center to be established on the East Coast, BCIL was founded in 1974 to secure funding and provide support to enable people with significant disabilities to live independently in the community. In 1979, BCIL started a direct advocacy program for accessible transit issues and personal assistance services funding. The DRILM collection includes oral histories with founders and key activists.
Elmer Bartels
Boston Center for Independent Living
Charles Carr
Paul Corcoran
Fred Fay
Richard Gould
Chris Palames
California Department of Rehabilitation
The collection includes oral histories and personal papers of department directors, rehabilitation counselors, and administrators of this California state agency since the 1960s.
Gerald Belchick
California Department of Rehabilitation
Catherine Campisi
James Donald
Brenda Premo
Edward V. Roberts
John Velton
Lucile Withington
Center for Accessible Technology
Founded in 1982 as the Disabled Children's Computer Group, the center provides assistive technology to people with disabilities. The DRILM collection includes the organizational records and an oral history with its founder, as well as records of the Alliance for Technology Access, the national organization which grew out of the Disabled Children's Computer Group.
Jacquelyn Brand
Center for Accessible Technology
Center for Independent Living, Berkeley
Founded in March 1972 by former UC Berkeley students and others, this was the first center run by people with disabilities to provide support and advocacy services for independent living in the community. Inventive, sometimes chaotic, always in the forefront of disability advocacy, it attracted disability activists from around the country and became one of the foremost models for the independent living movement. The DRILM collection contains the organizational records of CIL Berkeley and oral histories with 23 staff members.
Anita (Aaron) Baldwin
Carol Fewell Billings
Janet McEwen Brown
Center for Independent Living, Berkeley
Phil Chavez
Eric Dibner
Maureen Fitzgerald
Donald Galloway
Judith Heumann
Joanne Jauregui
Hal Kirshbaum
Megan Kirshbaum
David Konkel
Johnnie Lacy
Herbert Leibowitz
Joan Leon
Mary Lester
Victoria Ann Lewis
Bette McMuldren
Corbett O'Toole
Linda Perotti
Edward V. Roberts
Zona Roberts
John "Jack" Rowan
Kenneth Stein
Susan Sygall
Alana Theriault
Raymond Uzeta
Herbert Willsmore
Hale Zukas
Cowell Residence Program, University of California, Berkeley
Beginning in 1962, a small group of young people, all wheelchair users with significant disabilities, enrolled in the University of California, Berkeley. In an era prior to accessible dormitories or private housing, they were given living quarters in the campus's Cowell Hospital. Living in the middle of a campus exploding with student protest movements, Cowell became a breeding ground for the Berkeley phase of the independent living movement.
The collection includes oral histories with former students and university and Department of Rehabilitation staff, as well as archival papers documenting the Cowell experience.
Billy Barner
Gerald Belchick
Carol Fewell Billings
Edna Brean
Henry Bruyn
Cathrine Caulfield
Cowell Residence Program, University of California, Berkeley
Eric Dibner
Disabled Students' Program, University of California, Berkeley
James Donald
Michael Fuss
Karen Topp Goodwyn
Charles Grimes
Betty Neely
Linda Perotti
Edward V. Roberts
John "Jack" Rowan
Peter Trier
John Velton
Arleigh Williams
Herbert Willsmore
Lucile Withington
Disabled in Action (DIA)
Disabled in Action was founded in 1970 in New York by Judith Heumann as a grassroots, direct-action disability rights group. Oral histories with six early members document the early years of this pioneering advocacy organization.
Disabled in Action (DIA)
Denise Figueroa
Patricio Figueroa
Judith Heumann
Neil Jacobson
Bobbi Linn
Disabled Students' Program, University of California, Berkeley
Initially called the Physically Disabled Students' Program (PDSP), this university program grew out of the efforts by disabled students to obtain support services for independent living on the campus. Principles and strategies developed in its early years helped shape the independent living movement. Find oral histories of students and staff members and the archives of the program.
Billy Barner
Carol Fewell Billings
Cowell Residence Program, University of California, Berkeley
Eric Dibner
Disabled Students' Program, University of California, Berkeley
Michael Fuss
David Konkel
Betty Neely
Susan O'Hara
Linda Perotti
Zona Roberts
Herbert Willsmore
Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund (DREDF), Berkeley office
DREDF is a nonprofit national law and policy center dedicated to expanding the civil rights of people with disabilities and their families. Founded in 1979, it has played a key role in developing legal strategy for groundbreaking disability rights legislation and policy, including the Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975, the ADA in 1990, and the training of advocates nationally and internationally in disability rights work. The organizational records of DREDF offices in Berkeley and Washington, D.C. are in the collection, along with oral histories with founders and other staff members.
Mary Lou Breslin
Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund (DREDF), Berkeley office
Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund, Washington DC office
Deborah Kaplan
Diane Lipton
Arlene Mayerson
Corbett O'Toole
Doreen Pam Steneberg
Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund, Washington DC office
DREDF is a nonprofit national law and policy center dedicated to expanding the civil rights of people with disabilities and their families. Founded in 1979, it has played a key role in developing legal strategy for groundbreaking disability rights legislation and policy, including the Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975, the ADA in 1990, and the training of advocates nationally and internationally in disability rights work. The organizational records of DREDF offices in Berkeley and Washington, D.C. are in the collection, along with oral histories with founders and other staff members.
Mary Lou Breslin
Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund (DREDF), Berkeley office
Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund, Washington DC office
Deborah Kaplan
Diane Lipton
Arlene Mayerson
Corbett O'Toole
Doreen Pam Steneberg
Independent Living Centers and the National Council on Independent Living
Oral histories with founders and leaders of the National Council on Independent Living and of independent living centers in Chicago, New York, St. Louis, California, and Massachusetts document the growth and development of the independent living movement. (See also Boston Center for Independent Living and Center for Independent Living, Berkeley)
Marca Bristo
Charles Carr
Anna Fay
Denise Figueroa
Patricio Figueroa
Lex Frieden
Donald Galloway
Independent Living Centers and the National Council on Independent Living
June Kailes
Johnnie Lacy
Bobbi Linn
Douglas Martin
Denise McQuade
Chris Palames
Pat Pound
Brenda Premo
Marilyn Saviola
Raymond Uzeta
Keys to Introducing Disability in Society (KIDS)
KIDS—Keys to Introducing Disability in Schools (now Keys to Introducing Disability in Society)—project began as a satellite program of the Center for Independent Living in Berkeley. The DRILM collection includes organizational records and interviews with two early project staff members.
Jacquelyn Brand
Keys to Introducing Disability in Society (KIDS)
Corbett O'Toole
World Institute on Disability (WID)
WID was founded in 1983 as an international center for the study of public policy, research, and training on disability. The DRILM collection includes WID's organizational records and oral histories with founding members and its current executive director.
Judith Heumann
Deborah Kaplan
Joan Leon
Edward V. Roberts
World Institute on Disability (WID)