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"To boldly go where everyone else has gone before": the road to ADAPT

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dc.contributor.authorPetrie, Gentrice, author
dc.contributor.authorOrsi, Jared, advisor
dc.contributor.authorCarr Childers, Leisl, committee member
dc.contributor.authorHepburn, Susan, committee member
dc.date.accessioned2023-01-21T01:24:25Z
dc.date.available2023-01-21T01:24:25Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.description.abstractDuring the 1970s, residents of the newly established Atlantis independent living center used civil disobedience tactics to sway the city to provide accessible transportation services. Their strategies worked, and by 1983, Denver had one of the most accessible public transportation systems in the country. After their success, members of Atlantis decided to expand their cause by founding the activist organization American Disabled for Accessible Public Transportation, now American Disabled for Attendant Programs Today (ADAPT), which not only gave disability activists a national platform to draw attention to the issue of inaccessible transportation, but also gave them the opportunity to integrate disabled individuals into a world that denied them access to mainstream services. This story not only illuminates the success that direct action protest had on influencing public policy on a local scale but highlights how this activism empowered activists and members of the disability community by occupying public spaces, therefore challenging the idea that disabled people are unable to advocate on their own behalf and live independently.
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dc.identifierPetrie_colostate_0053N_17578.pdf
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10217/235991
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherColorado State University. Libraries
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dc.subjectAmerican Disabled for Accessible Public Transportation
dc.subjectAtlantis
dc.subjectBlank, Wade
dc.subjectAmerican Disabled for Attendant Programs Today
dc.subjectADAPT
dc.subjectindependent living
dc.title"To boldly go where everyone else has gone before": the road to ADAPT
dc.title.alternativeTo boldly go where everyone else has gone before: the road to ADAPT
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thesis.degree.grantorColorado State University
thesis.degree.levelMasters
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Arts (M.A.)

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