Interview with Bob Kafka and Stephanie Thomas conducted by Sarah Rose and Trevor Engel July 11, 2018 | Texas Disability History Collection

Interview with Bob Kafka and Stephanie Thomas conducted by Sarah Rose and Trevor Engel July 11, 2018

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Interview with Bob Kafka and Stephanie Thomas conducted by Sarah Rose and Trevor Engel July 11, 2018

Interview Topics:

Philadelphia court case and Revolutionary War costumed protests
Relation of HIV, AIDS, and transsexualism to the ADA
ADAPT organizers
History of the ACCD
The Crawl-Up at the Capitol
Backlash of the Crawl-Up
Goals of individual actions
Protest in the Rotunda of the Capitol building
Process and development of police arresting disabled protestors
ADAPT’s issues with paratransit
Accessibility today compared to before the ADA
Response to Rotunda Protests
Lack of cooperation between disability groups today

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Interviewee:

Kafka, Bob (biography)

Topic:

Health and Medicine

Keywords:

Advocacy

Persons:

Kafka, Bob, Thomas, Stephanie

Interview Date:

2018-07-11

Interviewer:

Rose, Sarah

Length:

01:13:48

Transcription Date:

2019-08-29

Identifier:

20085441

Publisher:

UT Arlington Libraries

Rights:

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Rights Holder:

University of Texas at Arlington Libraries, Special Collections

License:

Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)