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Smithsonian profiles Disablity Rights activist Ed Roberts

May 15, 2015

A recent article on Smithsonianmag.com profiles pioneering disability rights advocate Ed Roberts. Roberts, whose fight for equal treatment as a student at the University of California-Berkeley led him and others to found the first Center for Independent Living, passed away in 1995.

Mr. Roberts’ motorized wheelchair is now a part of the collection of the National Museum of American History.

Ed Roberts’ Wheelchair Records a Story of Obstacles Overcome (Smithsonian Magazine Online)

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