An independent man : Ed Roberts and the fight for disability rights /

"Before Jonas Salk's vaccine, polio was a social death sentence. The disabled were expected to disappear into their limitations, pitied by those around them. This might have been the story of Ed Roberts, paralyzed and consigned to sleep in an iron lung. But Roberts insisted on what all peo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Danforth, Scot (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2025]
Subjects:	Roberts, Edward V., > 1939-1995. People with disabilities > United States > Biography. Personnes handicapées > États-Unis > Biographies. Biographies. Electronic books.

Table of Contents:

Fight
The crippler
Vegetable
Reborn
King of the cripples
Learning to fight
Dr. Bruyn's program
Death and renewal
Radical Berkeley
A new movement
Humblest beginnings
Joan
Judy
I'm here, we're here
Across America
Revolution in Sacramento
Winning
Pride in 25 days
Nationwide independence
Vegetables unite!
A magical place
Grief and genius
Partners
Men of adventure
Lenin's tomb is inaccessible
Passing the torch
To the Smithsonian
Interdependence.