Sun Times, May 11, 1992

Photo by Brian Jackson: A line of police hold a long metal barricade in front of them. On the other side a row of wheelchair demonstrators with ADAPT are lined up toes to the barricade. A man in a wheelchair (Mark Johnson) is in the forground looking sideways to the camera, beside him to his left is a small woman in a chair (Cassie James). Three people down another protester (Brian from Houston) faces the camera and is wearing numerous buttons. Another police officer stands behind Mark, with his hands on his hips.


Caption: Able to protest
Police keep demonstrators in wheelchairs from advancing Sunday alter a protest of Health and Human Services Secretary Louis W. Sullivan's commencement address at the University of illinois at Chicago. The disabled activists were protesting "warehousing" people with disabilities in nursing homes and other institutions. Russell Goode, a Louisville, Ky., member of American Disabled tor Attendant Programs Today, said, “What we really want is Sullivan to reallocate 25 percent oi the money they give lor nursing homes to us and Medicaid or attendant programs.“ The money would enable disabled people to hire attendants, he said.

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Chicago Sun Times / photo by Brian Jackson

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Friday 12 July 2013

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Thursday 29 November 2018

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14th Ammendment, 16th Street Mall, Brian from Houston, Cassie James, commencement, Mark Johnson, police barricades, Russell Goode, Secretary Louis Sullivan, University of Chicago, warehousing

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