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Shapiro, Joseph P.

 
9780812919646: No Pity: People With Disabilities Forging a New Civil Rights Movement

Synopsis

A history of the disability rights movement discusses the ever-growing struggle of disabled people to challenge discrimination and explains how the disabled used their political clout to gain passage of the Americans With Disabilites Act. 25,000 first printing.

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About the Author

Joseph P. Shapiro is an award-winning journalist who is an NPR news investigations correspondent. Before joining NPR, he spent 19 years at U.S. News & World Report as a senior writer on social policy, and served as the magazine's Rome bureau chief, White House correspondent, and congressional reporter. For his investigative work, Shapiro received a duPont Award, a George Foster Peabody Award, a Robert F. Kennedy Award, and the Edward R. Murrow Award. He is the author of No Pity: People with Disabilities Forging a New Civil Rights Movement.

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People with disabilities forging the newest and last human rights movement of the century.

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ISBN 10:  0812924126 ISBN 13:  9780812924121
Publisher: Times Books, 1994
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