Why Must Read No Pity: People with Disabilities Forging a New Civil Rights Movement?

It's great to see so many reviews for this book from students who were assigned it for college and other curricula. Such books should be required reading for any course covering the spectrum of civil rights. Yes, it's outdated by now, but still one of the most comprehensive studies of the decades before the passage of the ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act). My own focus involved research on real-time events in the disability movement, and how I could weave actual events into the life of a disabled main character in my novels, 'Every Time I Think of you' and, more extensively, its sequel 'Message of Love,' which includes a realistic (I hope) depiction of a protest in 1980s Philadelphia. 'No Pity' proved essential for my research as well as expanding my understanding of the struggle of millions of people.