REFERENCES & CONTACT
SOURCES THAT SUPPORT THE STORY
Every milestone, timeline, and profile featured on this website is grounded in trusted historical sources and documented research. Explore the references behind the movement, and if you have questions, suggestions, or additional resources to share, we'd love to hear from you.
SOURCING
REFERENCES
The organizers, litigators, and troublemakers whose work is behind nearly every accessible ramp, curb cut, and captioned broadcast in the country. This is not an exhaustive list — it's a starting set of some of the movement's more prominent figures, spanning over a century of organizing.
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HISTORY & TIMELINE
National Park Service, "Disability History: The Disability Rights Movement" nps.gov/articles/disabilityhistoryrightsmovement.htm
DREDF, "The History of the Americans with Disabilities Act" — dredf.org
Disability Rights Florida, "The 1977 504 Sit-In" disabilityrights-Porida.org
disAbility Law Center of Virginia, ADA history blog dlcv.org/ada-history-blog
NPR / ADA Legacy Project, "A Look Back at Section 504" mn.g-ov/mnddc/adalegacy
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ACTIVISTS
Jewish Women's Archive, "Judith Heumann" jwa.org/encyclope-dia/article/heumann-judith
California Museum, "Ed Roberts" inductee page California Museum, "Ed Roberts" inductee page —
Wikipedia, "Justin Dart Jr."
Disability Throughout History, "Brad Lomax" disabilitythrougho-uthistory.squarespace.com
Disability Rights Advocates, Haben Girma sta] bio dralegal.org
Smithsonian American Women's History, "Kitty Cone: Advocate for Disability Rights"
Perkins School for the Blind, "Helen Keller, Shakespeare Skeptic"
KQED, "Disability Activist Alice Wong Reminds California This Pandemic Is Far From Over"
CONTENT CREATORS
UC Berkeley Othering & Belonging Institute, Imani Barbarin conference bio
Campaign US, "Meet Molly Burke, First Blind Creator to Hit 1M Subscribers on YouTube"
Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation blog, "Warming Up to Intimacy as an Interabled Couple" (Cole & Charisma)
Wikipedia, "Chris Ulmer"
LinkedIn, Rikki Poynter professional prodle
keahbrown.com, oecial author site
Abilities.com, Squirmy and Grubs pre-show appearance feature
A note on this list's scope: the Activists and Creators sections are a starting point, not a complete record — the disability rights movement spans well over a century and includes far more organizers, writers, and creators than any one page can hold. Treat this as a launchpad for further reading. Know someone we missed? Use the form below to let us know.
About the images on this site: each portrait is a colored-pencil style illustration, not a photograph, generated from a source photo of the real person or couple. Source photos are credited below — licensing was confirmed before publishing.
Brad Lomax disabilitythroughouthistory.squarespace.com/-posts1/brad-lomax
Kitty Cone — womenshistory.si.edu/blog/kitty-cone-advocate-disability-rights
Helen Keller — perkins.org/helen-keller-shakespeare-skeptic/
Ed Roberts — californiamuseum.org/inductee/ed-roberts/
Justin Dart Jr. — en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_Dart_Jr.
Judy Heumann — jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/heumann-judith
Haben Girma — dralegal.org/staff-members/haben-girma/
Imani Barbarin belonging.berkeley.edu/conference/imani-barbarin
Alice Wong — kqed.org
Molly Burke — campaignlive.com
Chris Ulmer — en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Ulmer
Rikki Poynter — linkedin.com/in/rikkipoynter-1b94171ba
Keah Brown — keahbrown.com
Squirmy and Grubs — abilities.com
Cole and Charisma — blog.christopherreeve.org
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