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Stage 1:

Gale:

1. Search "Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990"

2. Go to the reference sections and click on "Americans with Disabilities Act (1990). Ruth Colker. Major Acts of Congress"

Colker, Ruth. Major Acts of Congress. Ed. Brian K. Landsberg. Vol. 1. New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 2004. 25-29.

Ciment, James, ed. Social Issues in America an Encyclopedia. Vol. 2. Armonk,NY: M.E. Sharpe,Inc., 2006. 258-537.

gives chronology from 1790s to 2002: (here's a quick overview)

1918 Smith-Sears Veterans Vocational Rehabilitation Act (rehabilitation for disabled soldiers)

1935 Social Security Act (provides federal assistance to disabled childern and blind adults)

1947 Paralyzed Veterans of America is founded (organization is representative of new generation of postwar disability activism, disabled want intergration into society)

1973 Rehabilitation Act (sec. 504) prohibits dicrimination against people with disabilites in federaly funded programs)

1977 Demonstrations in several major cities (San Francisco offices of the federal department of Health, Education and Welfare) force of promulgation of regulations enforcing sec. 504

other:

-"called the unexpected minority" and "last civil rights movement"

-previously considered indivdual issue, ex. wheelchair is not isolating, but architectural barriers are

important people-Timothy Nugent, Edward V. Roberts "father of independent living", Ronald L. Mace

important orgs/projects- League of Physically Handicapped, American Federation of the Phyiscally Handicapped, Paralyzed Veterans Association, United Cerebral Palsy Associations, Association for Retarded Children, Mental Patients Liberation Project, Physically Disabled Students program, American national standards institute, American Disabled for Acessible Public Transit***cruical to ADA***, Amercain Coalition of Citizens with Disablities

sumpreme ct- PARC v. Pennslyvania; Mills v. Board of Education

prior legislation- Education for All Hanicapped Childern Act AKA IDEA, Rehabilitation Act ***Section 504***

Stage 2:

Lexis Nexis:, search for "Law Number 101-336"

Gale:,

1. Search "Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990"

2. Go to academic journals and click on "Do people with disabilities believe the ADA has served their consumer interests?(Americans with Disabilities Act)(Table)"

Department of Justice - ADA:

ada.gov is the homepage.

http://ada.gov/pubs/ada.htm shows the actual text of the ADA.

http://ada.gov/cguide.htm#anchor62335 is an explanation of the importance of the ADA.

Wikipedia:, search for "American with Disabilities Act", it has a lot of references at the bottom of the page

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americans_with_disabilities_act

Americans with Disabilities Act (1990). Ruth Colker.

Major Acts of Congress. Ed. Brian K. Landsberg. Vol. 1. New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 2004. p25-29. 3 vols. (2384 words) From Gale Virtual Reference Library.

Facts About the Americans with Disabilities Act:

http://www.eeoc.gov/facts/fs-ada.html

Encyclopedia of Social Issues:

Roth, John K. "Americans with Disabilities Act." Encyclopedia of Social Issues. 1st ed. 6 vols. Tarrytown, New York: Marshall Cavendish Corporation, 1997.

Stage 3

Agencies on Attachment #1

Pg. 83-83 in AP Government Textbook:

Mandates weren't fully funded because they were too expensive for businesses at first.

Department of Justice ADA Enforcement Status Reports:

http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/ada/enforce.htm

EEOC Mediation

http://www.eeoc.gov/mediate/index.html

Gale:

1. Search "Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990"

2. Go to the reference sections and click on "Americans with Disabilities Act (1990). Ruth Colker. Major Acts of Congress"

3. Scroll down to "Experience Under The Act" and then to "The Importance of Voluntary Compliance."

Stage 4

ACLU Pro's and Con's List:

http://www.acluprocon.org/bin/procon/procon.cgi?database=5-H-Sub-4Q.db&command=viewone&op=t&id=2&rnd=951.2914029720052

Enforcing ADA, Looking back on a decade of Process:

http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/ada/pubs/10thrpt.htm

(Look in The Disabled for information)

The Reference book entitled "The Disabled" has really good information on the American with Disabilities Act, especially the first chapter, pg. 16-61, background and criticisms of the act.