Groups
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Americans Disabled for Attendant Programs Today (ADAPT)

ADAPT, or Americans Disabled for Attendant Programs Today, is a disability rights collective focused on highlighting and changing the institutional discrimination faced by disabled people. Founded in 1983 as a collective of activists from multiple existing disability rights groups who demanded that city buses include wheelchair-accessible lifts, ADAPT soon branched out into other disability rights issues, such as legislation that solidifies the rights of disabled people. ADAPT often makes...
Movements
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Disability Rights Movement

The disability rights movement is an intersectional social movement that began gaining ground in the late 1960s, at the height of the civil rights movement. It fights for both legal rights and civil liberties of disabled people and the end of social stigmatization of the disabled identity.