Skip to Main Content

Disability Studies

This guide provides a jumping off point for doing research into the impacts of disability on identity, representation, engineering and built environment, health care, technology, and power. We work to center the voices of people with disabilities.

Disability Rights Movement in the United States

The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 was the most sweeping legislation to support and protect people with disabilities, and the legislation that impacts most day-to-day rights, including government services, employment, design, etc. Learn more about key dates and the history of activism, legislation, and events of people with disabilities. 

Books Available at Belk Library