Summary Of No Pity People's Fight For Civil Rights

Disability and more so people that have disabilities have fought for civil rights over a period of time and even today they are still fighting. A prime example in how we see disabled people fight for civil rights is in Joseph Shapiro’s book, No Pity-People with Disabilities Forging a New Civil Rights Movement and I am looking at chapter 2. In this chapter Shapiro told a story about Ed Roberts, who caught a polio virus and he fought for civil rights for a long time. The polio virus paralyzed his muscles that controlled his lungs and in a while he would not be able to breathe on his own, and would have to get surgery. Since, he was could not be able to breathe on his own, he was not able to do everything that the “normal” kids could like meet