DISABILITIES: HISTORY : HISTORY: SOCIAL AND CULTURAL : MEDICAL: HISTORY: Disability History Timeline

[David P. Dillard]

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DISABILITIES: HISTORY :
HISTORY: SOCIAL AND CULTURAL :
MEDICAL: HISTORY:
Disability History Timeline
http://isc.temple.edu/neighbor/ds/disabilityrightstimeline.htm

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The Disability History Timeline is a select list of national and
international milestones highlighting people, events and legislation that
effect disability rights.

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1817

The American School for the Deaf is founded in Hartford, Connecticut. This
is the first school for disabled children anywhere in the Western
Hemisphere.

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1848

The Perkins Institution, founded by Samuel Gridley Howe in Boston,
Massachusetts, was the first residential institution for people with
mental retardation. Over the next century, hundreds of thousands of
developmentally disabled children and adults were institutionalized, many
for the rest of their lives.

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1864

Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb and Blind was authorized by the
U.S. Congress to grant college degrees. It was the first college in the
world established for people with disabilities.

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1859

Charles Darwin publishes his controversial book The Origin of the Species.

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1865

P.T. Barnums American Museum on Broadway is destroyed by a mysterious
fire.

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1883

Eugenics is a term that was coined by Sir Francis Galton in his book
Essays in Eugenics. Americans embraced the eugenics movement by passing
laws to prevent people with disabilities from moving to the U.S., marrying
or having children. Eugenics laws led to the institutionalization and
forced sterilization of disabled adults and children.

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1912

The Kallikak Family by Henry H. Goddard was a best selling book. It
proposed that disability was linked to immorality and alleged that both
were tied to genetics. It advanced the agenda of the eugenics movement.

The Threat of the Feeble Minded (pamphlet) created a climate of hysteria
allowing for massive human rights abuses of people with disabilities,
including institutionalization and forced sterilization.

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1918

The Smith-Sears Veterans Rehabilitation Act provided for the promotion of
vocational rehabilitation and return to civil employment of disabled
persons discharged from U.S. military.

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1924

The Commonwealth of Virginia passed a state law that allowed for
sterilization (without consent) of individuals found to be feebleminded,
insane, depressed, mentally handicapped, epileptic and other. Alcoholics,
criminals and drug addicts were also sterilized.

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1927

The Buck v. Bell Supreme Court decision ruled that forced sterilization of
people with disabilities was not a violation of their constitutional
rights. This decision removed all restraints for eugenicists. By the
1970s, over 60,000 disabled people were sterilized without their consent.

The U.S. Supreme Court upheld Commonwealth of Virginia eugenic laws as
constitutional. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes equated sterilization to
vaccination. Nationally, twenty-seven states began wholesale sterilization
of undesirables.

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The complete timeline may be viewed at the URL above.

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