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By the 1970s, one in four Americans lived with a disability. Yet, facing discrimination and arcane laws, only a fraction held jobs and many were institutionalized or lived in poverty. In 1972, a shocking exposé of the horrific abuses at New York's Willowbrook State School, the nation's largest institution for children with developmental disabilities, ignited a movement to lift disability out of the shadows.

Across the country, a small group of disabled college students and community members formed the Center for Independent Living (CIL) in Berkeley, California. Rejecting the model of charity and pity, the Independent Living Movement charted a new course to empower people with disabilities to lead independent lives.

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CHANGE, NOT CHARITY: THE AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT tells the emotional and dramatic story of the decades-long push for equality and accessibility that culminated in the 1990 passage of the ADA, one of the most consequential civil rights bills in the nation’s history.

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