The Gazette, Montreal, Monday, October 3, 1988
Photo by The Gazette's James Seeley

Three adults in wheelchairs (ET, Claude Holcomb, and a blond in a motorized wheelchair) look on as a police man crouches down and tries to hold the barricades against a 7 year old (Jennifer Keelan) in a wheelchair being pushed by her mom (Cyndy Keelan). In one corner a TV cameraman captures the scene. Everyone is wearing rain gear and the streets behind them are shiny wet.

[Headline] No access for wheelchairs
Activist Cynthia Keelan of Scottsdale, Arizona pushing her wheelchair-bound daughter Jennifer, 7, is blocked by police barricades at demonstration outside transit convention yesterday. The demonstrators were demanding full access to public transit for the disabled. Keelan was arrested last night during a later demonstration at the Sheraton Centre.

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Thursday 11 July 2013

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Thursday 18 January 2018

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arrested, children in the disability rights movement, Claude Holcomb, Cyndy Keelan, ET Ernest Taylor, full accessibility, Jennifer Keelan, Montreal, police barricades, Sheraton Centre, transit convention

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