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Title: Cincinnati called civil rights battleground

CINCINNATI — Leaders of 17 wheelchair-bound protesters who were arrested while demonstrating for access to public transit buses say Cincinnati has become a civil rights battleground.

“This is the Selma, Ala., of the disabled civil rights movement,” said the Rev. Wade Blank of Denver, a co-founder of the group American Disabled for Accessible Public Transportation, which staged this week's protests.

Seventeen protesters from Texas, Colorado and Utah were arrested Wednesday, when the American Public Transit Association concluded its regional meeting. Some boarded buses and declined requests that they get off. Others blocked a parking entrance to the hotel where the association met, while three others chained themselves together to block a doorway in the Queen City Metro headquarters.

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Thursday 11 July 2013

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Wednesday 8 June 2016

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ADAPT - American Disabled for Accessible Public Transportation, blocking, chains, civil rights, disability rights movement, protesters, Selma, Wade Blank, wheelchair boardings, wheelchair bound

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