News from August 2007

Minnesota: Freedom Riders Mark Graves at Institution

http://www.mankatofreepress.com/features/local_story_231005232.html?keyword=topstory
By Pat Christman
Ceremony at St. Peter Regional Treatment Center honors those whose graves were marked by just numbers
(Mankato, Minnesota) Remembering With Dignity, together with the Americans with Disabilities Act Road to Freedom tour, held a ceremony Saturday to honor the placement of hundreds of new grave markers in the St. Peter Regional Treatment Center’s cemetery.

Cemeteries [...]

Michigan: Supporters Greet ADA Freedom Bus

By KIM HOYUM
MARQUETTE - A national bus tour promoting the Americans with Disabilities Act got plenty of support Tuesday when it stopped at the Marquette Commons.
“Is the ADA about charity?” asked Jim Ward, president of ADA Watch and the National Coalition of Disability Rights.
“No!” shouted back a crowd of more than 100 Upper Peninsula residents.
“Is [...]

Iowa: Senator Tom Harkin Joins Freedom Bus

Senator Tom Harkin Calls for Restoration of Americans with Disabilities Act
on the ‘Road to Freedom’ National Bus Tour

Advocates Living On the Road to Advance Disability Civil Rights
WASHINGTON, Aug. 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) joined a family of four, a prominent documentary photographer, and other advocates who are living and traveling aboard a bus during [...]

Freedom Bus in Central Iowa

By Frank Strong, Jr.
Associate Director of the Central Iowa Center for Independent Living
After months of planning of the event to celebrate the arrival of the ADA “Road to Freedom” bus tour arrived in Des Moines, Iowa. The “Road to Freedom “ buses had been traveling around the states for the last eight months, [...]

Baseball For All: Freedom Bus at Veterans Memorial Stadium in Cedar Rapids, Iowa

By Guest Blogger: Mike Hoenig, Member of the Cedar Rapids, Iowa Road to Freedom Tour Planning Committee
(Cedar Rapids, Iowa) August 10, 2007, will go down as a day to remember for disability advocates attending the Road to Freedom Tour/ADA Celebration in Cedar Rapids. Things got underway at 2 PM with tours of Veterans Memorial [...]

Freedom Bus at Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site

Click here to go to the photo gallery for this bus stop.
“We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of “separate but equal” has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.”
– From the opinion written by Chief Justice Earl Warren in the 1954 Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of [...]

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