Independent Living History

• Check out this site for a discussion of disability rights around the world from 1944 to today .
• Also see this virtual tour on Google Arts & Culture on the ADA (great photos!).

Learn about the Independent Living Center Movement

• Essay on my adventure in the IL Movement
• It Started with ATTITUDES
• Roland Sykes’ Battle Plan from HERE (12/16/1996)
• A Disabled Manifesto
• ESCAPE from a Nursing Home
• Historical People in the Disability Rights Movement
• History of Act 150 Attendant Care in PA
• The Lesson I Learned
• History of Shared Ride in PA for PWD’s
• CILs are an Untapped Resource
• Why Join TRPIL?

People Make Our History…

In addition to looking at our information on Historical People in the independent living movement, please check out the following links:

• Tom Olin: Social Documentarian – We have created this page to provide you with information about Tom Olin and his personal Journey.

• Lives Worth Living is an historical documentary about the Disability Rights Movement and a biography about Fred Fay, one man’s struggle to survive.

• It’s Our Story collaborate on putting disability history online

• Eugenics Story history online of the conspiracy to deprive people with disabilities basic human right to have children.

Online Disability History

• DIMENET was one of the earliest accessible, consumer-controlled computer bulletin board networks for coordinating and mediating disability advocacy and programs online.
• Institute on Disability Culture resources,
• Roland Sykes’ Battle Plan from HERE, on TRPIL (then TRIPIL) becoming a consumer-controlled CIL.