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Augusta exhibit commemorates 25th anniversary of Americans with Disabilities Act

January 6, 2015

The ADA at 25

UMA’s Holocaust and Human Rights Center display includes an oral history from those with disabilities, as well as their art and historical artifacts.

The story of the disability rights movement hasn’t been fully told, said Keith Ludden, founder of Oral History and Folklore Research Inc.

So that movement was one of the first projects the nonprofit group tackled when it formed in 2013.

“The disability rights movement was by some extent overshadowed by the civil rights movement, the women’s rights movement, things like that,” Ludden, of Augusta, said Tuesday.

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