Website chronicles disability rights, independent living movement
BERKELEY, Aug. 10, 2004 --Nearly 100 in-depth oral histories and a collection of unique archival materials documenting the disability rights and independent living movement are now available online through a new website hosted by the University of California, Berkeley and compiled by the university's Bancroft Library. Interviews with movement leaders, participants and observers, along with documents, photographs and audio and video clip offer a rich historical resource. Activists in Berkeley, Massachusetts, New York, Texas, Chicago, and Washington, D.C. contributed to the collection. "Videotaped group interviews in Boston and New York City, for instance, show the interaction between people who have worked together for decades as they recall key moments in creating a social movement," says the university in a press release.
In addition to the oral histories, the collection contains a wealth of documents -- poet Mark O'Brien's published and unpublished poems and other writings; papers of Ed Roberts, noted national leader from Berkeley; and records from the World Institute on Disability. The site is: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/collections/drilm/
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