BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//DREDF - ECPv6.16.3//NONSGML v1.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://dredf.org
X-WR-CALDESC:Events for DREDF
REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H
X-Robots-Tag:noindex
X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:America/Los_Angeles
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0800
TZOFFSETTO:-0700
TZNAME:PDT
DTSTART:20240310T100000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0700
TZOFFSETTO:-0800
TZNAME:PST
DTSTART:20241103T090000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0800
TZOFFSETTO:-0700
TZNAME:PDT
DTSTART:20250309T100000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0700
TZOFFSETTO:-0800
TZNAME:PST
DTSTART:20251102T090000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0800
TZOFFSETTO:-0700
TZNAME:PDT
DTSTART:20260308T100000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0700
TZOFFSETTO:-0800
TZNAME:PST
DTSTART:20261101T090000
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251206T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251206T150000
DTSTAMP:20260615T060736
CREATED:20251120T012313Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251203T011235Z
UID:30638-1765029600-1765033200@dredf.org
SUMMARY:Author Talk with Scot Danforth
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a talk by Chapman University Professor Scot Danforth on his new book An Independent Man: Ed Roberts and the Fight for Disability Rights. Presented in partnership with UC Press \n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \nAbout the Book \nThe first biography of one of the founders of the disability rights movement\, An Independent Man chronicles the life of an activist who reimagined the meaning of equality and inspired generations of reformers. \n  \nBefore Jonas Salk’s vaccine\, polio was a social death sentence. The disabled were expected to disappear into their limitations\, pitied by those around them. This might have been the story of Ed Roberts\, paralyzed and consigned to sleep in an iron lung. But Roberts insisted on what all people deserve: a full life. \n  \nScot Danforth deftly captures Roberts’s adventurous personality and radical vision\, chronicling his life from his student activist days at the University of California\, Berkeley\, in the early 1960s to his career highlights of establishing the pioneering Center for Independent Living and directing California’s Department of Rehabilitation. By insisting that disabled persons are valuable members of society\, and by translating his ideas into action\, Roberts laid the ground for the Americans with Disabilities Act and the ongoing movement for equality. \n  \nAbout the Author \nScot Danforth is the Jack H. and Paula A. Hassinger Chair in Education and Professor of Disability Studies at Chapman University. \n  \nFind out more at the University of California Press \n\n\n\n  \nWheelchair accessible. Request sign language interpreter\, real-time captioning\, materials in large print\, braille\, or other accommodations by calling 510-981-6195 (Library) or the 510-981-6347 (City of Berkeley TDD line). Please refrain from scented products during public programs. \n  \n 
URL:https://dredf.org/event/author-talk-with-scot-danforth/
LOCATION:Berkeley Central Library\, 2090 Kittredge Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR