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Independent Lens | Razing the Shameful Wall of Exclusion | PBS

Duration: 02:06
Program: Independent Lens #1303
Broadcast Date: Oct. 27, 2011

Following a final, dramatic act of civil disobedience in the Capitol Rotunda, where activists in wheelchairs chained themselves together, Congress passed the Americans with Disabilities Act, which would go on to be signed into law in 1990 by President H.W. Bush in 1990.

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Post Date: September 19, 2011