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Author Shapiro, Joseph P.

Title No pity : people with disabilities forging a new civil rights movement / Joseph P. Shapiro.

Publication Info. New York : Three Rivers Press, 1994.

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 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  323.3 SHAPIRO    Check Shelf
Description xi, 382 pages ; 21 cm
Note "Originally published by Times Books in 1993"--Title page verso.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-368) and index.
Contents Tiny Tims, supercrips, and the end of pity -- From charity to independent living -- The deaf celebration of separate culture -- A hidden army for civil rights -- Integration: out of shadowland -- People first -- The screaming neon wheelchair -- Up from the nursing home -- No less worthy a life -- Crossing the luck line.
Processing Action Self-Renewing 2017 UoY
Subject People with disabilities -- Civil rights -- United States.
Discrimination against people with disabilities -- United States -- History.
People with disabilities -- Government policy -- United States -- History.
Discrimination against people with disabilities. (OCoLC)fst00895020
People with disabilities -- Civil rights. (OCoLC)fst01057253
People with disabilities -- Government policy. (OCoLC)fst01057285
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
ISBN 0812924126
9780812924121
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