Courtesy of the ADATA, George H. W. Bush signs in the ADA.
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The Americans with Disabilities Act or ADA was passed in 1990 and prohibited discrimination in employment and public services. According to the EEOC the ADA was “the nation’s first comprehensive civil rights law addressing the needs of people with disabilities”. The push for legislation supporting people with disabilities gained ground in the early seventies. Successes in African American civil rights, labor rights and Latino workers rights in the 1960’s provided the necessary groundwork for the disability rights movement. Changes in legislation began in 1973 with the Rehabilitation Act, over the next 17 years Americans would push to define and broaden the legislative support of people with disabilities.
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