The Rehabilitation Act of 1973 is broadly considered the first piece of federal civil rights legislation for disabled people. Section 504 specifically required that academic programs, hospitals and other institutions that receive federal funding could not discriminate against or physically exclude people on the basis of disability. While the act was signed into law by Richard Nixon in 1973 - in order for it to widely take effect H.E.W. the Department of Health Education and Welfare, needed to write regulations to define who was disabled and what was considered discrimination. Disability Rights Activists created the American Coalition of Citizens with Disabilities under the Ford Administration to draft regulations. When Jimmy Carter became president HEW officials attempted to create a different set of draft regulations, in response disability rights activists threatened what is now known as the 504 Sit-In.

Incitement of the 504 Sit-In

- Incitement of the 504 Sit-In
- What was the 504 Sit-In?
- Panther Involvement in the 504 Sit-In

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- What was the Black Panther Party?
- Views of the Black Panther Party in early and later years?
- "The Black Panther" - The Black Panther Party
- The 504 Sit-In
- Oakland Community School
-Mental and Carceral Institutions

The Black Panther Part as an Example of Black Disability Politics

Schalk, Sami. Black Disability Politics, New York, USA: Duke University Press, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781478027003

Black Disability Politics

The Black Panther Party was a revolutionary, antiracist, anticapitalist, anti-imperialist organization started in Oakland, California in 1966 by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale. By 1970 68 cities had party chapters of varying sizes.

What was the Black Panther Party?

The 504 Sit-In

- What was the Oakland Community School?
- Black Disability Politics in the Oakland Community School

The Oakland Community School

In this chapter Schalk addresses the Panthers' fight against psychiatric abuse and how this work overlapped and intersected with their work against the prison industrial complex, the military industrial complex, and other forms of state violence. Schalk argues the BPP protested psychiatric abuse through:
(1) Collaborating with existing networks of activist groups
(2) Publishing of pieces in the Black Panther
(3) participation in public interest lawsuits to sue Oakland area nursing homes.

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