Today Doodle pays tribute to an early leader of the disability
rights movement, Ed Roberts.
After contracting polio at age 14, Roberts was paralyzed from
the neck down.
He was confined to a special wheelchair with a respirator
during the day and slept in an 800-pound iron lung at night.
Despite his limitations, he continued his studies via
telephone hookup, attending in person a few hours a week.
His mom, Zona, encouraged him persevere despite the odds.
Roberts's activism began in earnest as early as high school,
when he was denied his diploma due to his inability to complete
Physical Education (PE) and Driver's Ed.
After petitioning, not only did he earn his diploma, he went on
to college, becoming the first student with severe disabilities to attend the
University of California, Berkeley.
There, he led other Berkeley students with severe disabilities in creating
the Physically Disabled Students Program, the first of its kind.Roberts
went on to earn his bachelor's and master's degrees in political science
from Berkeley, and later returned to lead the Berkeley Center for
Independent Living, which inspired many similar centers around the
U.S.
In 1976, Gov. Jerry Brown appointed him Director of the
California Department of Vocational Rehabilitation, and in 1983 he co-founded the World Institute
on Disability.
His mother Zona describes: "I watched Ed as he grew from a sports-loving
kid, through bleak days of hopelessness,
into self-acceptance of his physical
limitations as he learned what was possible for him to accomplish.
His years at UCB were great ones as he both enjoyed his college status
and got in touch with his leadership qualities.
He took great pleasure in watching people with disabilities
achieve greater acceptance."
Today's Doodle pays homage to Ed Roberts's 78th Birthday

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