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Out of the Horrors of War - Disability Politics in World War II America (Hardcover)
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Out of the Horrors of War - Disability Politics in World War II America (Hardcover)
Series: Politics and Culture in Modern America
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From workplace accidents to polio epidemics and new waves of
immigration to the returning veterans of World War II, the first
half of the twentieth century brought the issue of disability-what
it was, what it meant, and how to address it-into national focus.
Out of the Horrors of War: Disability Politics in World War II
America explores the history of disability activism, concentrating
on the American Federation of the Physically Handicapped (AFPH), a
national, cross-disability organization founded during World War II
to address federal disability policy. Unlike earlier disability
groups, which had been organized around specific disabilities or
shared military experience, AFPH brought thousands of disabled
citizens and veterans into the national political arena, demanding
equal access to economic security and full citizenship. At its
core, the AFPH legislative campaign pushed the federal government
to move disabled citizens from the margins to the center of the
welfare state. Through extensive archival research, Audra Jennings
examines the history of AFPH and its enduring legacy in the
disability rights movement. Counter to most narratives that place
the inception of disability activism in the 1970s, Jennings argues
that the disability rights movement is firmly rooted in the
politics of World War II. In the years immediately following the
war, leaders in AFPH worked with organized labor movements to
advocate for an ambitious political agenda, including employer
education campaigns, a federal pension program, improved access to
healthcare and education, and an affirmative action program for
disabled workers. Out of the Horrors of War extends the arc of the
disability rights movement into the 1940s and traces how its terms
of inclusion influenced the movement for decades after, leading up
to the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.
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