The opening images of the forthcoming AMERICAN EXPERIENCE documentary Change, Not Charity: The Americans with Disabilities Act aptly set the stage: a grainy shot of the Capitol building’s dome against ...

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AMERICAN EXPERIENCE "Change, Not Charity: The Americans with Disabilities Act," a new documentary tells the emotional and dramatic story of the decades-long push for equality and accessibility that ...

The Americans With Disabilities Act was a major turning point in opening large parts of U.S. society to disabled people, but three decades after its passage disabled workers still face higher ...

Thirty-five years ago, the Americans with Disabilities Act was signed into law. It was the world's first comprehensive civil rights law for people with disabilities. To commemorate the anniversary, ...

It was a promise that disabled Americans would no longer be excluded from schools, workplaces, public spaces or civic life. It was a declaration that disability rights are civil rights. But today, ...

When the Americans With Disabilities Act was signed into law on this day in July 1990, my parents didn’t yet know how much the landmark civil rights law would soon shape my life — and theirs. I was ...

Sometimes, when she’s out shopping or running errands, Shelby Hintze of Salt Lake City finds places where she simply cannot go. Hintze, 32, was born with a progressive neuromuscular disorder called ...

TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - On July 26, 1990, then-President George H.W. Bush signed the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) into law, but its story doesn’t begin on Capitol Hill. It begins in places like ...

The dramatic story of the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) in 1990. The emotional and dramatic story of the decades-long push for equality and accessibility that culminated in the ...