Matching Pairs Disability History (People) ENGOnline version Historical and relevant people in disability history by Youth ESMA 1 Dr. Timothy Nugent 2 Brad Lomax 3 Franklin Delano Roosevelt 4 Alexander Graham Bell 5 Bonnie St. John 6 Judy Huemann 7 Harriett Tubman 8 Cecil A. Ivory 9 Louis Braille 10 Ludwig van Beethoven 11 Frida Kahlo 12 Ed Roberts 13 Thomas Gallaudet 14 Marla Runyan In 1932 he is elected 32nd president of the United States. While vacationing he contracted an illness, believed to be polio In 1957, he organized a bus boycott that is credited with sparking the city’s movement for social justice He becomes the father of the Independent Living Movement and helps establish the first Center for Independent Living (CIL) She had polio as a child, spinal & pelvis damage from a car accident, then becoming a world-renowned Latina, self-portrait painter, and feminist 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 1829 he Invents the raised point alphabet known as braille Bonnie St. John became the first African-American ever to win medals in Winter Olympic competition 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 1872 he opens a speech school for deaf teachers in Boston 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 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 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