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Sunday, August 5, 2012
The Gang of 19
On July 5-6, 1978, Wade Blank and nineteen
disabled activists--The Gang of 19--from ADAPT (then known as the
American Disabled for Accessible Public Transit) held an overnight city
bus "hostage" on the corner of Broadway & Colfax in Denver,
Colorado.
Those 19 people
put Denver front and center in disability rights history. Wade Blank founded Atlantis Community just a few years
before the Gang of 19 protest. From that protest, ADAPT
was formed in 1983...and is still going strong. They have an extensive
archive of disability rights history if you're ever interested in
seeing how that protest changed history throughout the country. RMPBS
did a great documentary on how the Gang of 19 protest ultimately led to
the passage of the ADA.
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