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The Disability History Quilt
To view the squares in Amy's history
quilt, click here, or on the image of the quilt above. To read the story of the quilt, click here.
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Skip to the right page: Page 1: ADA, Fair Housing Act, My Life My Choice, Tech Act, How Will we Sleep at Night..." , TRCIL, 504, Air Carrier Access Act, IDEA, T4, MH Parity, OBRA Page 2: ADAPT, Not Dead Yet, We Will Ride, Ed Roberts and Wade Blank Candles, Peace, Fellow Advocates, MLK Page 3: L Carnegie, JFK quote, DPN, Act 150, PA act 166, MiCASSA 2020, Together We Can ...
The
Story of Amy's Disability History Quilt When I first began this project
my idea was to make a small wall hanging that would symbolize various aspects of the Disability Rights Movement. The goal
was to create something that would be empowering to look at and that could re-energize my spirit in time of need. It
would remind me of where we came from, where we are going, and would include words from leaders both past and present that
have touched my soul. For twenty months my mind did not rest, dreaming of
new ideas for ‘squares' - a quilt's building blocks - and watching my quilt grow. Once it reached 94" x
64" I knew that it was time to stop, even knowing that not everything nor everyone that empowers me could possibly fit
within its borders. That is why this is only the beginning of a
series of quilts that I am creating that will focus on our heroes, our triumphs, and our defeats; telling our stories to pass
on to future generations. The quilt contains twenty-seven squares, twenty-three of which are what I consider "universal"
squares; they represent disability issues that all Americans with disabilities feel a connection with on some level. One square represents a
Pennsylvania (my home state) State law, and the remaining three are symbolic of my connection to the movement. The border
reads "with liberty and justice for all" twice around the quilt. The lattices (the pieces that define each square),
contain twenty-seven quotations from disability rights and national leaders. I embellished the lattices with over ten thousand individually
sewn multicolored glass seed beads to add variety and sparkle.To learn more about each square please click on the quilt above.
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