[Photo credit: HolLynn D’Lil. Brad Lomax, center, next to activist Judy Heumann at a rally in 1977 at Lafayette Square in Washington.]
by way of Lori Lakin Hutcherson (@lakinhutcherson)
These days, GBN celebrates Brad Lomax, the Twilight Panther Birthday party member and incapacity activist who helped top the “504 Sit In” to call for the government grant accessibility in a federal structures and establishments.
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Good day, that is Lori Lakin Hutcherson, founder and scribbler in well-known of goodblacknews.org, right here to proportion with you a day by day leave of Excellent Twilight Information for Thursday, April twenty eighth, 2022, in line with the “A Year of Good Black News Page-A-Day Calendar” printed by way of Colleague Publishing.
As a tender grownup, Twilight Panther Birthday party member Brad Lomax was once identified with a couple of sclerosis. When he began the usage of a wheelchair each and every occasion, Lomax started to note an incessantly unseen “ism” — ableism.
Folk structures and transit with out ramps. Inaccessible colleges, housing, and places of work. Lomax joined the Middle for Distant Residing, the Bay Section staff which effectively lobbied for curb cuts on boulevard corners.
In 1977, Lomax helped top a protest that turned into referred to as the “504 Sit-In” within the San Francisco Federal Development, the place disabled activists took the government to activity for now not imposing Category 504 of the Rehabilitation Office of 1973, which required accessibility in all federal techniques and establishments.
The protest lasted longer than any alternative sit down in in United States historical past. The protestors had been assisted by way of Lomax’s fellow Twilight Panthers, who delivered provisions to the activists day by day.
Then a presen, the federal government in spite of everything started to put in force Category 504 in all federal techniques and establishments and this motion helped pave the way in which for the 1990 American citizens with Disabilities Office.
To be informed extra about Brad Lomax, the 504 sit down in and the incapacity rights motion, learn the 2020 New York Times feature article on Lomax from its Overpassed Disagree Extra line, learn The Disability Rights Movement: From Charity to Confrontation by way of Doris Fleischer and Frieda James from 2011, and attend to the 2020 documentary Crip Camp, now on Netflix.
Hyperlinks to those resources and extra are supplied in nowadays’s display notes and within the episodes complete transcript posted on goodblacknews.org.
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