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9780812924121

No Pity

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  • ISBN13:

    9780812924121

  • ISBN10:

    0812924126

  • Format: Trade Paper
  • Copyright: 1994-10-25
  • Publisher: Broadway Books

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Summary

People with disabilities forging the newest and last human rights movement of the century.

Author Biography

Joseph P. Shapiro is an award-winning journalist who is an NPR news investigations correspondent. Before joining NPR, he spent 19 years at U.S. News & World Report as a senior writer on social policy, and served as the magazine’s Rome bureau chief, White House correspondent, and congressional reporter. For his investigative work, Shapiro received a duPont Award, a George Foster Peabody Award, a Robert F. Kennedy Award, and the Edward R. Murrow Award. He is the author of No Pity: People with Disabilities Forging a New Civil Rights Movement.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction: You Just Don't Understand 3(9)
Tiny Tims, Supercrips, and the End of Pity
12(29)
From Charity to Independent Living
41(33)
The Deaf Celebration of Separate Culture
74(31)
A Hidden Army for Civil Rights
105(37)
Integration: Out of Shadowland
142(42)
People First
184(27)
The Screaming Neon Wheelchair
211(26)
Up from the Nursing Home
237(21)
No Less Worthy a Life
258(31)
Crossing the Luck Line
289(33)
Epilogue: How the Disability Rights Movement Is Changing America 322(11)
Postscript: A Single Garment of Destiny 333(8)
Notes 341(22)
Bibliography 363(6)
Index 369

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