Advocates for Disability Rights: Building the Texas Disability History Collection
Location
Central Library - Parlor (6th Floor)
Start Date
21-10-2019 11:00 AM
End Date
21-10-2019 12:00 PM
Description
Scholars have thus far devoted limited attention to 20% of Americans with disabilities, one of the largest minorities in the country. Little is known about disability rights activism and the lives of disabled people in the South and Southwest. By creating the Texas Disability History Collection (TDHC), the University of Texas at Arlington Libraries is bringing awareness and accessibility to disability history. The collection documents UT Arlington’s preeminent role in making higher education accessible to students with disabilities, driving the development of adapted (or disability) sports nationwide, and spurring disability rights activism in the north Texas region. The site was specifically designed to address access issues that hinder research by people with a wide variety of impairments, including visual, hearing and mobility and cognitive disabilities.
Recommended Citation
Downing, Jeff; McClurkin, Brenda; and Leverenz, Andrew, "Advocates for Disability Rights: Building the Texas Disability History Collection" (2019). Open Access Week. 8.
https://mavmatrix.uta.edu/oaweek/2019/1/8
Advocates for Disability Rights: Building the Texas Disability History Collection
Central Library - Parlor (6th Floor)
Scholars have thus far devoted limited attention to 20% of Americans with disabilities, one of the largest minorities in the country. Little is known about disability rights activism and the lives of disabled people in the South and Southwest. By creating the Texas Disability History Collection (TDHC), the University of Texas at Arlington Libraries is bringing awareness and accessibility to disability history. The collection documents UT Arlington’s preeminent role in making higher education accessible to students with disabilities, driving the development of adapted (or disability) sports nationwide, and spurring disability rights activism in the north Texas region. The site was specifically designed to address access issues that hinder research by people with a wide variety of impairments, including visual, hearing and mobility and cognitive disabilities.