Relacionar Columnas Disability History (People) ENGVersión en línea Historical and relevant people in disability history por Youth ESMA 1 Brad Lomax 2 Franklin Delano Roosevelt 3 Frida Kahlo 4 Dr. Timothy Nugent 5 Bonnie St. John 6 Alexander Graham Bell 7 Harriett Tubman 8 Marla Runyan 9 Judy Huemann 10 Ed Roberts 11 Ludwig van Beethoven 12 Cecil A. Ivory 13 Louis Braille 14 Thomas Gallaudet In 1932 he is elected 32nd president of the United States. While vacationing he contracted an illness, believed to be polio He becomes the father of the Independent Living Movement and helps establish the first Center for Independent Living (CIL) Famous conductor of the underground railroad with a disability In 1949 this doctor was also known as the "Father of Accessibility," creating the National Wheelchair Basketball Association 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 Bonnie St. John became the first African-American ever to win medals in Winter Olympic competition In 1829 he Invents the raised point alphabet known as braille In April of 1977 he urged the Black Panther party to get more involved in the 504 sit-ins On April 15th, 1817, he founded the first institution for the education of the deaf in North America 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 On May 27th 1970 she sues the NYC Board of Education when their application for a teaching license is denied due to their wheelchair She had polio as a child, spinal & pelvis damage from a car accident, then becoming a world-renowned Latina, self-portrait painter, and feminist 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