DDLS Fall 2018The Disability Civil Rights Movement: From No Pity to Me Too

October 11, 2018- Duration 2.75 hrs

Joseph Shapiro, MS
Author and Journalist
National Public Radio (NPR)
Washington, DC

Joe Shapiro, an award winning journalist, has been a witness to the disability rights movement, chronicled some of its most dramatic moments, and written about its biggest heroes. He’s an investigative reporter for NPR and the author of a “classic” book on disability history, NO PITY: People with Disabilities Forge a New Civil Rights Movement. In this session, Joe Shapiro will discuss the origins of the disability civil rights movement and how people with disabilities and their families advocated for change – and how system evolution helped all Americans, especially as we age. He will play some his radio pieces and talk about his reporting – including a recent ground-breaking series on the epidemic of sexual assault of people with intellectual disabilities – and share behind-the-scenes stories.

Audio File Part I (mp3 file)
Audio File Part II (mp3 file)

PowerPoint Slides (PDF) Audio clips are included in the presentation recordings above

Handout Packet (PDF)

Robert Wood Johnson Medical School