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SUMMARY:Author Talk with Scot Danforth @Central 
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DESCRIPTION:Join us for a talk by Chapman University Professor Scot Danfor
 th on his new book An Independent Man: Ed Roberts and the Fight for Disabi
 lity Rights.\n\nPresented in partnership with UC Press.\nhttps://berkeleyp
 ubliclibrary.libnet.info/event/14097827
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p><strong>About the Book</strong></p>\n<p><b
 r />The first biography of&nbsp\;one of the founders&nbsp\;of the disabili
 ty rights movement\,&nbsp\;<em>An Independent Man&nbsp\;</em>chronicles th
 e life of an activist who reimagined the meaning of equality and inspired 
 generations of reformers.</p>\n<p>Before Jonas Salk's vaccine\, polio was 
 a social death sentence. The disabled were expected to disappear into thei
 r limitations\, pitied by those around them. This might have been the stor
 y of Ed Roberts\, paralyzed and consigned to sleep in an iron lung. But Ro
 berts insisted on what all people deserve: a full life.</p>\n<p>Scot Danfo
 rth deftly captures Roberts's adventurous personality and radical vision\,
 &nbsp\;chronicling his life from his student activist days at the Universi
 ty of California\, Berkeley\, in the early 1960s to his career highlights 
 of establishing the pioneering Center for Independent Living and directing
  California's Department of Rehabilitation. By insisting that disabled per
 sons are valuable members of society\, and by translating his ideas into a
 ction\, Roberts laid the ground for the Americans with Disabilities Act an
 d the ongoing movement for equality.</p>\n<p><br /><strong>About the Autho
 r</strong></p>\n<p><br />Scot Danforth&nbsp\;is the Jack H. and Paula A. H
 assinger&nbsp\;Chair in Education and Professor of Disability Studies at C
 hapman University.</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>Find out more at the <a href="https://
 www.ucpress.edu/books/an-independent-man/hardcover">University of Californ
 ia Press</a></p>\nhttps://berkeleypubliclibrary.libnet.info/event/14097827
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