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Pushing Forward

By Guest Blogger Marca Bristo, President,United States International Council on Disabilities and President and CEO, Access Living

Twenty-five years ago, on July 26, 1990, 2,000 people with disabilities gathered on the South Lawn of the White House for the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) signing ceremony. The jubilant crowd heard President George H. W. Bush proclaim the often quoted words, “I now lift my pen to sign this Americans with Disabilities Act and say:  Let the shameful wall of exclusion finally come tumbling down.”