Useful Links
Information about the independent living movement
https://mn.gov/mnddc/parallels/six/6a/1.html
Two Geniuses, One Wheelchair and an Audacious Plan to Swim with the Whales
When the oceanographer who discovered whale songs met the paralyzed disability rights leader, they began a quest that grew more dangerous and beautiful than they ever imagined.
https://narratively.com/two-geniuses-one-wheelchair-and-an-audacious-plan-to-swim-with-the-whales/?fbclid=IwAR1xW_wH7reblXkHfqxD-RA9NP9HVhjehQr-BsH8rek-laeCDWDwjZF6oqc
Ed Roberts: The Father of Independent Living
https://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=Ed_Roberts:_The_Father_of_Independent_Living
Ed Roberts, the Disability Rights Movement and the ADA
https://artsandculture.google.com/story/ed-roberts-the-disability-rights-movement-and-the-ada-aapd/GgXx4PBo_Ty9Jg?hl=en
Disability Justice Resources
https://semiscoalition.org/disability-justice-resources/
https://mn.gov/mnddc/parallels/six/6a/1.html
Two Geniuses, One Wheelchair and an Audacious Plan to Swim with the Whales
When the oceanographer who discovered whale songs met the paralyzed disability rights leader, they began a quest that grew more dangerous and beautiful than they ever imagined.
https://narratively.com/two-geniuses-one-wheelchair-and-an-audacious-plan-to-swim-with-the-whales/?fbclid=IwAR1xW_wH7reblXkHfqxD-RA9NP9HVhjehQr-BsH8rek-laeCDWDwjZF6oqc
Ed Roberts: The Father of Independent Living
https://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=Ed_Roberts:_The_Father_of_Independent_Living
Ed Roberts, the Disability Rights Movement and the ADA
https://artsandculture.google.com/story/ed-roberts-the-disability-rights-movement-and-the-ada-aapd/GgXx4PBo_Ty9Jg?hl=en
Disability Justice Resources
https://semiscoalition.org/disability-justice-resources/
Primary Sources
This Family Album slide show is designed to show memorable photos of Ed as a toddler, a young child, a baseball enthusiast, on the campus of UC Berkeley with his two brothers, at his wedding, and as a new father.
https://mn.gov/mnddc/ed-roberts/family-album.html
60 Minutes Segment with Harry Reasoner
https://mn.gov/mnddc/ed-roberts/sixtyMinutes.html
https://mn.gov/mnddc/ed-roberts/family-album.html
60 Minutes Segment with Harry Reasoner
https://mn.gov/mnddc/ed-roberts/sixtyMinutes.html
Ed Roberts Speaks at the First Partners in Policymaking Session 1 (May 1, 1987)
https://mn.gov/mnddc/parallels2/one/video/Roberts-Effective_Strategies_for_Social_Change.pdf
https://mn.gov/mnddc/parallels2/one/video/Roberts-Effective_Strategies_for_Social_Change.pdf
Ed Roberts: Free Wheeling