Ludwig van Beethoven
Judy Huemann
Harriett Tubman
Bonnie St. John
Frida Kahlo
Ed Roberts
Louis Braille
Thomas Gallaudet
Brad Lomax
Marla Runyan
Dr. Timothy Nugent
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Cecil A. Ivory
Alexander Graham Bell
On May 27th 1970 she sues the NYC Board of Education when their application for a teaching license is denied due to their wheelchair
On April 15th, 1817, he founded the first institution for the education of the deaf in North America
In April of 1977 he urged the Black Panther party to get more involved in the 504 sit-ins
In 1872 he opens a speech school for deaf teachers in Boston
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
He becomes the father of the Independent Living Movement and helps establish the first Center for Independent Living (CIL)
In 1829 he Invents the raised point alphabet known as braille
She had polio as a child, spinal & pelvis damage from a car accident, then becoming a world-renowned Latina, self-portrait painter, and feminist
In 1949 this doctor was also known as the "Father of Accessibility," creating the National Wheelchair Basketball Association
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
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
In 1957, he organized a bus boycott that is credited with sparking the city’s movement for social justice
Bonnie St. John became the first African-American ever to win medals in Winter Olympic competition
