speeches is after somma. he ends that with we shall overcome. and he pushes for voting rights legislation. he pushes all the civil rights laws through. but for lbj class is more important than race. he wants to solve economic problems and the race problem will take care of itself. you can argue with that, but it's not an insubstantial argument. what he really wanted to do with end poverty. the war on poverty. that's one of his phrases. the war on poverty. he starts this bewildering series of programs to make america more fulfilled. in education, he starts headstart. he financed preschool forget to can afford it. he wants all americans to get to the country. it's like let's go to clean up the lake and pick up trash. let's go volunteer in this way. but for these people to work. like the new deal, these programs just keep on coming. medicare, which is health care for the elderly. a lot of these public housing programs we now call the projects. some not terribly successful. highway beautification. that was a part

one thing we might forget is there was also a terrible somma, and of the church bombings and disability was the result of a lot of the actions and neck dignities, mostly negative for the civil rights movement of 1964. we have sarah jean collins, one of the survivors of the church bombings 12 years old and blinded by the dynamite that killed her sister in birmingham. here she is now, a blind disabled woman. we tend to record the history of the disabled in the past of a kind of make special heroes out of people like beethoven or something. my interest in writing about the americans with disability act is to also remind us of the historical event that happened in the lead up to the ada. i will talk about the march later on. of course that led to let his known as the capital crawl. some of you may be familiar with this image of people with disabilities crawling up the steps of the capitol in protest of the progress or lack of progress on the ada. my interest in writing the americans with disabilities act and both of my parents had zero hearings and resentment which users as well as lip read