Extraordinary people with disabilities /
Profiles seven dozen people throughout history with various physical or mental disabilities. Additional articles provide historical background on the disability rights movement.
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New York :
Children's Press,
[1996]
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| Series: | Extraordinary people.
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Table of Contents:
- John Milton
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Thaddeus Stevens
- Louis Braille
- Harriet Tubman
- John Wesley Powell
- Thomas Edison
- Juliette Gordon Low
- Helen Keller
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- Horace Pippin
- Dorothea Lange
- Frida Kahlo
- Sir Douglas Bader
- Jacobus tenBroek
- Harold Russell
- The fight for disability rights legislation
- Bill Veeck
- Alicia Alonso
- Roy Campanella
- Robert Dole
- Daniel Inouye
- John Langston Gwaltney
- Christy Brown
- Beverly Butler
- Audre Lorde
- Ed Roberts
- Henry Kisor
- Wilma Rudolph
- The challenge of sports
- Stephen Hawking
- I. King Jordan
- Judi Chamberlin
- Wilma Mankiller
- Itzhak Perlman
- Patty Duke
- Harilyn Rousso
- For the disabled, of the disabled
- Temple Grandin
- Judy Heumann
- Stevie Wonder
- John Callahan
- The right to live, the right to die
- Susan Nussbaum
- John Hockenberry
- Tom Cruise
- Jackie Joyner-Kersee
- Chris Burke
- Disabled students in the mainstream
- Marlee Matlin
- Jean Driscoll
- Jim Abbott
- Heather Whitestone
- To find a way or to make one : technological aids for the disabled.