FOI #22-308

1973 Rehabilitation Act

Name: Michael Ayele

Affiliation: Withheld.

Location: UConn Storrs

Request Date Start: Withheld.

Request Date End: Withheld.

Details: What I am requesting for prompt disclosure are records in your possession detailing [1] your discussions about Section 504 of the 1973 Rehabilitation Act as “the first national civil rights law to view the exclusion and segregation of people with disabilities as discrimination;”[iv] [2] your discussion about the “month long occupation” of the (now defunct) U.S Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW) building in San Francisco being instrumental for the enactment of Section 504 of the 1973 Rehabilitation Act; [v] [3] your discussions about Section 504 of the 1973 Rehabilitation Act as a civil rights law, which “was enacted without fanfare and with little notice;” [4] your discussions about the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 as a “spending bill that authorized $1.55 billion in aid to people with disabilities;”

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