Crossroads of Protest: Historical Connections Between Racial Justice and Other Justice Movements
There are both historical and ongoing connections between the movement for racial justice and other social movements. This guide highlights the historical connection between the racial justice movement and the fight for a broad range of human rights.
Disability Rights and Racial Justice
Photo credit: HolLynn D’Lil. Bradley Lomax, center, next to activist Judy Heumann at a rally in 1977 at Lafayette Square in Washington. Bradl was a Black Panther with MS and a disability rights activist.
Print Books about Disabilty Rights, Protest, and Racial Justice
What We Have Done: An Oral History of the Disability Rights Movement by Publication Date: 2012-02-01
Disabled Rights: American Disability Policy and the Fight for Equality by Publication Date: 2003-02-13
About Us: Essays From the Disability Series of the New York Times by Publication Date: 2019-09-03
DisCrit: Disability Studies and Critical Race Theory in Education by Publication Date: 2016-01-30
eBooks about Disability Rights, Protest, and Racial Justice
The Disability Rights Movement: From Charity to Confrontation by Publication Date: 2011-06-03
Disability, Human Rights and the Limits of Humanitarianism by Publication Date: 2016-05-23
Being Heumann by Publication Date: 2020-02-25
Resistance and Hope: Essays by Disabled People by Alice Wong. Disability Visibility Project, 2018, www.smashwords.com/books/view/899911
Videos about Disability Rights, Protest, and Racial Justice
- Documentary: Where Is Hope -- The Art of Murder: Police Brutality Against People With DisabilitiesChronicles disabled victims murdered by police as well as the activists/artists who are fighting to end police brutality against people with disabilities. The work of many disabled activists and artists/activists are explored around this issue, especially involving disabled people of color. Available through Multnomah County Library.
- Video: We Can't Breathe: The Deaf & Disabled Margin of Police BrutalityThe We Can’t Breathe Video discusses the narratives of 5 people with disabilities on the margins who have been victimized by police brutality and other forms of systemic violence. There is also an accompanying toolkit. (Link is in the video description.)
Websites about Disability Rights, Protest, and Racial Justice
- Black, Disabled, and Proud: College Students with Disabilities"...Resources to help connect BLM to disability resources, to help Black students with disabilities learn about intersections of disability and race in the movement, and to share resources about race and disability with police and security officers working with campuses and surrounding neighborhoods."
- Disability Social History Project"During the 504 protests at the San Francisco Federal Building in 1977, the Black Panther Party provided support, including feeding the demonstrators during the 26-day sit-in. The following is an edition of the Black Panther Party newspaper describing the occupation."
- Brad Lomax, Disabled Black Panther"[Brad Lomax] was a proud member of BPP and used his participation to urge the Party to become a part of a major time in disability rights history – demanding the passage of Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act in 1973."
- Black Disability History, Vol. I: Reclaiming the Black Disabled ExperienceTen stories of Black Americans with disability are shared, each reflecting what the intersection of Blackness and disability meant to them. The narratives span from the founding era of the United States through the 1990s.