PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS 3-25-89

PHOTO (by SAM PSORAS/ DAILY NEWS):
A group of people with picket signs are gathered in front of a dark wall with a door. A woman (Cassie James) in a motorized wheelchair is sitting sideways in the center. She has a huge sign that reads in great big letters "ACCESS NOW." She has shoulder length hair and is wearing glasses, a dark coat, white pants and stylish boots. In front and to her left another woman in a wheelchair is sitting in front of the doorway leaning to one side talking to a woman in a midcalf length coat holding a cane. The woman in the wheelchair is holding a sign that reads "Disabled In Action." Above the door on the side of the wall you can read "841 Chestnut ..." Behind the woman in the center is another person standing with a sign that reads "Access is a civil right!" That person is looking at 2 other women standing, one of whom is holding an 81/2 by 11 sized bundle and is wearing a coat and boots and seems to be holding a bull horn. Beside her the last person is holding a sign that reads "No Appeal."

Caption reads: ALL THEY ASK is ALL ABOARD
A contingent of eight protesters, some in wheelchairs, picketed the United Mass Transit Administration office, 841 Chestnut St., yesterday in support of a recent 3rd U.S. Circuit Court or Appeals ruling that all buses bought with federal funds must be accessible to disabled riders and that all who can't use buses must be afforded other mass transit. The protesters said they represented a variety of advocacy groups staging protests nationwide on behalf of 5 million disabled and elderly Americans.

Created on

Friday 12 July 2013

Posted on

Wednesday 22 July 2015

Tags

3rd US Circuit Court of Appeals, accessible transit, appeal, buses, Cassie James, DIA - Disabled in Action, Philadelphia, picketing, UMTA, wheelchairs

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