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Friday, July 20, 2012

"It's Our Story" Eleanor Smith, "Accepting a Lack of Access" - Answers from America's Disability Activists


Published on May 14, 2012 by ItsOurStoryProject

Eleanor Smith of Atlanta, GA, talks about growing up with a disability and learning to hold society to higher standards of accessibility and inclusiveness.

Eleanor Smith was a member of ADAPT and protested for accessible transportation; in 1987, she co-founded Concrete Change, an organization dedicated to accessibility in newly constructed houses.

This is #18 out of more than 1,000 interviews that "It's Our Story" has collected in an effort to free the voices of the disability community. Visit us at www.itsourstory.org

This interview transcribed by Jean Thompson.


# For more of "It's Our Story" visit : http://www.youtube.com/user/ItsOurStoryProject/featured

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