UGA Celebrates Georgia’s Rich Disability History
The Georgia Disability History Symposium: Stories of Advocacy and Action will take place on Oct. 23 at the Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries at University of Georgia (UGA) in Athens, GA. The symposium will include speakers presenting their experiences advocating over the past several decades and their thoughts about what still needs to be done 25 years after the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
Dr. Zolinda Stoneman, director of UGA’s Institute on Human Development and Disability (IHDD) and GCDD council member, will provide the keynote. Her talk will center on the impact of the ADA as well as a history of Rivers Crossing, a campus facility that once served as an institution for children with developmental disabilities.
The symposium is co-sponsored by UGA’s Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies and the IHDD and is an initiative of the Georgia Disability History Alliance, a group of advocates, self-advocates, organizational leaders, archivists, researchers and others united to preserve and protect the state’s disability history.
The event at UGA is free and open to the public. For more information or to RSVP, please contact Mat Darby at 706.542.0627 or mailto:
