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American Federation for the Physically Handicapped's President Paul Strachan outlines his proposals for an inter-departmental committee on selective job placement of the handicapped, and for a one-year pilot program in Pennsylvania leading to a…

Cover of a program for the Coalition of Texans with Disabilities 20th Delegate Assembly in Houston, TX, in 1998.

MIGHT Newsletter Vol. 3 No. 3 March 1, 1982

Photo from 'A Happy Christmas Party at the Crippled Children's School, Canton, Ohio, 1922'

5" x 7" postcard, three-story brick building with a stone foundation and dormers, inscription on front of image includes: "Nov. 20-05", "They haven't got me yet."

A man shown using adaptive painting techniques. He is painting with his feet. From the book The Care, Cure, And Education Of The Crippled Child with original caption: "THIS CRIPPLE HAS LEARNED TO OVERCOME HIS HANDICAP"

Cover of 1851 pamphlet titled: Astounding Disclosures! Three Years In A Mad House, by Isaac H. Hunt

A 1956 Amarillo Globe-Times newspaper article about the reforms Kansas implemented to prevent patients from being committed to life in a state mental hospital. It advocates for bringing these reforms to the system in Texas. Part of a series of…

A 1956 Amarillo Globe Times newspaper article against the Texas jury trial law to determine if someone needs institutional care for mental illness. In favor of implementing a similar law to the Kansas law that separates groups of mentally ill…

A 1956 Amarillo Globe-Times Article about the rehabilitation of a child at the Children's Unit at Topeka Hospital. Advocates for a similar unit in Texas mental hospitals and for a focus on rehabilitation instead of life in an institution. Part of a…