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Groundbreaking Disability Rights Legislation
2011
Overview
On October 26, 1972, and again on March 27, 1973, President Nixon vetoed early versions of what ultimately became the Rehabilitation Act of 1973—including Sections 501–504—both times asserting that the legislation was too expensive. He also argued that the act “diverted the program from its vocational objective into medical and social welfare policies” and “added a variety of new categorical programs.”! Throughout the country, disability activists protested these Nixon vetoes. In New York City, Judith E. Heumann and eighty allies organized a sit-in on Madison Avenue in October 1972, bringing traffic to a halt.²
At the annual
