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Kitty Cone

Oral History Center, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley
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Title

Kitty Cone

Alternative Title

Kitty Cone: Political Organizer for Disability Rights, 1970s-1990s, and Strategist for Section 504 Demonstrations, 1977

Finding Aid Title

No title

Date Created

1998

Date Published

2000

Description

Family background in Champaign, IL; education in the South, Japan, and Washington, D.C.; muscular dystrophy diagnosis, health care, family support; University of Illinois, 1962-1967: Rehabilitation Center, civil rights activism, Students for a Democratic Society; political organizing for Socialist Workers Party, 1967-1974, in Chicago, Atlanta, Washington, D.C., Berkeley; political organizing for Center for Independent Living, including issues of curb ramps, attendant care, access to transportation (BART, AC Transit, SF Muni), architectural access; lesbian life in the United States and Mexico; HEW's 504 regulations: importance, sit-in to guarantee signature, implementation, 1977-1979; adoption of and raising of son, Jorge; working for disability civil rights at World Institute on Disability, CIL, Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund (DREDF); reflections on feminism, racism, paternalism, medical insurance; reflections on Mary Lou Breslin, Judy Heumann, Ed Roberts, Hale Zukas, Brad Seligman; passage of Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), 1990; comments on substance abuse, environmental and mental disabilities, HIV-AIDS.

Transcript

http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt1w1001mt/

Creator

Bancroft Library. Oral History Center

Interviewer

Landes, David

Interviewee

Cone, Kitty

Subject Topic

Disabilities
People with disabilities
Health Care
Health

Language

eng

Media Type

Moving Image

Format

VHS

Number of Parts

1 Tape of 1

Generation

Original

Copyright Statement

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Country of Creation

US

Source Institution

Oral History Center, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley

Source Call Number

Motion Picture 928 D

Source Institution Contact Information

University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 94720-6000, US, Telephone: (510) 642-1595, email: bancref@library.berkeley.edu, http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/libraries/bancroft-library/oral-history-center

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