Enabling Acts: The Hidden Story of How the Americans with Disabilities Act Gave the Largest US Minority Its Rights
Lennard J. Davis tells the overlooked story of how the Americans with Disabilities Act came to give the largest minority in the United States important legal rights. Combining history, law, and social change, Enabling Acts examines the legislation’s significance and the movement behind it.
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Enabling Acts examines the history of the Americans with Disabilities Act, a landmark law that established important rights for people with disabilities in the United States.
Lennard J. Davis focuses on the lesser-known story behind the legislation and the forces that helped bring it into being.
The book places disability rights within the broader history of American law, politics, and social change.
It offers readers a deeper understanding of how a major civil rights achievement transformed recognition of the largest minority in the United States.
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