Relacionar Columnas Disability History (People) ENGVersión en línea Historical and relevant people in disability history por Youth ESMA 1 Frida Kahlo 2 Ed Roberts 3 Marla Runyan 4 Alexander Graham Bell 5 Ludwig van Beethoven 6 Thomas Gallaudet 7 Cecil A. Ivory 8 Louis Braille 9 Brad Lomax 10 Franklin Delano Roosevelt 11 Judy Huemann 12 Dr. Timothy Nugent 13 Harriett Tubman 14 Bonnie St. John 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 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 In April of 1977 he urged the Black Panther party to get more involved in the 504 sit-ins 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 1932 he is elected 32nd president of the United States. While vacationing he contracted an illness, believed to be polio On April 15th, 1817, he founded the first institution for the education of the deaf in North America 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 In 1949 this doctor was also known as the "Father of Accessibility," creating the National Wheelchair Basketball Association She had polio as a child, spinal & pelvis damage from a car accident, then becoming a world-renowned Latina, self-portrait painter, and feminist Bonnie St. John became the first African-American ever to win medals in Winter Olympic competition In 1872 he opens a speech school for deaf teachers in Boston In 1957, he organized a bus boycott that is credited with sparking the city’s movement for social justice Famous conductor of the underground railroad with a disability