SETWORKS BLOG: 7 Black Activists Who Shaped Disability Rights
February is Black History month. The article highlights seven Black activists who advanced disability rights: Brad Lomax (Section 504 sit-ins organizer), Dennis Billups (Section 504 protest leader), Fannie Lou Hamer (voting rights activist), Willie Mae Goodman (fought institutionalization at Willowbrook), Louise B. Miller (challenged segregation of Deaf students), Donald Galloway (Berkeley Center for Independent Living), and Lois Curtis (lead plaintiff in Olmstead v. L.C., affirming the right to community living).
