Matching Pairs Disability History (People) ENGOnline version Historical and relevant people in disability history by Youth ESMA 1 Ed Roberts 2 Franklin Delano Roosevelt 3 Brad Lomax 4 Frida Kahlo 5 Ludwig van Beethoven 6 Marla Runyan 7 Bonnie St. John 8 Dr. Timothy Nugent 9 Judy Huemann 10 Alexander Graham Bell 11 Harriett Tubman 12 Thomas Gallaudet 13 Louis Braille 14 Cecil A. Ivory She had developed a form of macular degeneration leaving her legally blind. She's the only visually impaired to compete in the Paralympic and Olympics On April 15th, 1817, he founded the first institution for the education of the deaf in North America She had polio as a child, spinal & pelvis damage from a car accident, then becoming a world-renowned Latina, self-portrait painter, and feminist Bonnie St. John became the first African-American ever to win medals in Winter Olympic competition In 1957, he organized a bus boycott that is credited with sparking the city’s movement for social justice In 1872 he opens a speech school for deaf teachers in Boston Famous conductor of the underground railroad with a disability In 1932 he is elected 32nd president of the United States. While vacationing he contracted an illness, believed to be polio In April of 1977 he urged the Black Panther party to get more involved in the 504 sit-ins In 1949 this doctor was also known as the "Father of Accessibility," creating the National Wheelchair Basketball Association He becomes the father of the Independent Living Movement and helps establish the first Center for Independent Living (CIL) His Ninth Symphony is one of the most important classical pieces of all time. His hearing proceeded to decline until he was deaf at 40 On May 27th 1970 she sues the NYC Board of Education when their application for a teaching license is denied due to their wheelchair In 1829 he Invents the raised point alphabet known as braille
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