No Pity: People with Disabilities Forging a New Civil Rights Movement

by Shapiro, Joseph P.

• ISBN13: 9780812924121
• ISBN10: 0812924126
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780307798329
• Additional ISBN(s): 9780812919646
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-10-25
• Publisher: Crown
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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