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<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: inherit; text-align: center;">The history surrounding the regulations for Section 504 and the protests to get them signed has become fairly well known.</span><span style="font-size: inherit; text-align: center;"> Ohio
played a significant role in the preface of that history that adds some context </span><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style=""><span style=""><span style=""><img border="0" width="201" height="176" id="Picture_x0020_5" src="cid:image002.jpg@01D9E630.3DF14120" alt="Photo The OSU marching band (TBDBIL) forming the International access logo (stick figure in a wheelchair) on the field of the Shoe in 2013 for the fortieth anniversary of the Rehabilitation Act"></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style=""><span style="font-size:8.0pt; font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Description in Alt Tag: Photo fo The OSU marching band, TBDBIL, forming the international access logo (stick figure
in a wheelchair) </span></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri Light", sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">on the field of the Shoe in October of 2013 for the fortieth anniversary of the Rehabilitation Act</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="">The origins of Section 504 can be traced to James Pedley a legislative aide to Ohio’s Representative
</span><span style=""><span style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85);">Charles Vanik. </span>
<span style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85);"> The Congressman was interested </span></span><span style=""><span style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85);">in
</span><span style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85);">supporting </span></span><span style=""><span style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85);">employment and transportation access
</span><span style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85);">for the disabled. </span></span><span style=""><span style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85);">Pedley</span><span style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85);"> apparently
</span></span><span style=""><span style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85);">suggested </span>
<span style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85);">that </span></span><span style=""><span style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85);">civil rights legislation</span><span style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85);"> to address disability discrimination like for race
</span></span><span style=""><span style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85);">and </span><span style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85);">sex would address these concerns</span></span><span style=""><span style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85);">. Vanik</span><span style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85);">
took the suggestion and </span></span><span style=""><span style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85);">introduce</span><span style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85);">d</span></span><span style=""><span style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85);"> a bill to amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964
to include </span>disabled people and partnered with Hubert Humphrey who introduced the bill in the Senate. It stalled in committee over very realistic concerns that opening up the Civil Rights Act to amendments would also open it up to attack.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="">At the same time the staff of the Senate Subcommittee on the Handicapped was working on the markup of</span><span style=""><span style="">
<span style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85);">the 1972 Rehabilitation Act</span></span><span style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85);">. It is not clear who but someone</span></span><span style=""><span style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85);"> suggested adding a disability rights provision
modeled after Title VI of the Civil Rights Act</span><span style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85);"> to
</span></span><span style=""><span style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85);"> protect people with disabilities from discrimination by the federal government</span><span style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85);"> and federal fund recipients.
</span></span><span style=""><span style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85);"> </span><span style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85);">The suggestion was accepted as a compromise and the provision was added at the end of the 1972 revisions to the Rehabilitation Act as Section 504.
With little discussion, debate, or even notice the section survived conference committee and
</span></span><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/statement-signing-the-rehabilitation-act-1973__;!!KGKeukY!0XtRf5uloojK1FqQ2vtj8R2LZoMn4HLecNm1QMn5csZEcp6H0yb9hVr7CG-Xrt1WjTuFs7nZtmu8Z09WVw$"><span style="">Nixon’s
two vetoes</span><span style=""></span></a><span style=""><span style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85);"> the Bill and was signed into law on September 26, 1973.</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style=""><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt">Celebrating 50 Years of the Rehabilitation Act and Section 504</span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.adagreatlakes.org/Publications/Newsletter/__;!!KGKeukY!0XtRf5uloojK1FqQ2vtj8R2LZoMn4HLecNm1QMn5csZEcp6H0yb9hVr7CG-Xrt1WjTuFs7nZtmuZdUuAiw$"><span style=""></span><span style=""><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Courtesy
of the Great Lakes ADA Center</span></span></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="">The Rehabilitation <span style="color: black;">
Act was signed into law on September 26, 1973. This national law protects people with disabilities from discrimination by federal employers, agencies and other organizations that receive federal funding. The Rehab Act also established a number of services that
still exist to this day such as the state vocational rehabilitation agencies, state independent living centers, and services to students with disabilities in the education system. It also required federal entities to hire employees and contractors with disabilities.
The Rehabilitation Act was one of the first federal laws that offered civil rights protections to persons with disabilities and would later become a template for the American with Disabilities Act (ADA) which expanded non-discrimination requirements to employers,
state and local governments, businesses, and other covered entities regardless of whether they received federal financial assistance. However, the road to compliance with the Rehabilitation Act has been a long and difficult process. In honor of the disability
rights activists who fought for the passing and implementation of the Rehabilitation Act—including one of its most well-known sections, Sec. 504—the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/adasoutheast.org/__;!!KGKeukY!0XtRf5uloojK1FqQ2vtj8R2LZoMn4HLecNm1QMn5csZEcp6H0yb9hVr7CG-Xrt1WjTuFs7nZtmsOcSy3kQ$" target="_blank"><span style=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 84, 136);">Southeast
ADA Center</span></span><span style=""></span></a><span style=""><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span><span style="color: black;">has developed a unique interview series called<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/section504at50.org/__;!!KGKeukY!0XtRf5uloojK1FqQ2vtj8R2LZoMn4HLecNm1QMn5csZEcp6H0yb9hVr7CG-Xrt1WjTuFs7nZtmuYTJajJA$" target="_blank"><span style=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 84, 136);">Section
504 at 50</span></span><span style=""></span></a><span style=""><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span><span style="color: black;">which highlights notable<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/section504at50.org/guests/__;!!KGKeukY!0XtRf5uloojK1FqQ2vtj8R2LZoMn4HLecNm1QMn5csZEcp6H0yb9hVr7CG-Xrt1WjTuFs7nZtmuSZyGVag$" target="_blank"><span style=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 84, 136);">disability
rights</span></span><span style=""></span></a><span style=""><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span><span style="color: black;">figures like Lex Frieden, Judy Heumann, Andrew Imparato, and more. </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style=""><b><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">What is on your disabilty playlist?</span></b></span></p>
<ul type="disc" style="margin-top:0in">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in; color: rgb(47, 85, 151);"><b><span style=""></span><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmr4H9NpTKk__;!!KGKeukY!0XtRf5uloojK1FqQ2vtj8R2LZoMn4HLecNm1QMn5csZEcp6H0yb9hVr7CG-Xrt1WjTuFs7nZtmuW1r6bTA$"><span style=""><span style="font-size:9.0pt">Lift
Me Up</span></span><span style=""></span></a><span style=""><span style=""></span></span></b></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in; color: rgb(47, 85, 151);"><b><span style=""></span><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVN9oSynWjg__;!!KGKeukY!0XtRf5uloojK1FqQ2vtj8R2LZoMn4HLecNm1QMn5csZEcp6H0yb9hVr7CG-Xrt1WjTuFs7nZtmv3uaxIVA$"><span style=""><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(47, 85, 151);">Assistive
Technology Boogie</span></span><span style=""></span></a><span style=""><span style=""></span></span></b></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in; color: rgb(0, 176, 80);"><b><span style=""></span><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrVn51bCZRI__;!!KGKeukY!0XtRf5uloojK1FqQ2vtj8R2LZoMn4HLecNm1QMn5csZEcp6H0yb9hVr7CG-Xrt1WjTuFs7nZtmvFnIBu-g$"><span style=""><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(0, 176, 80);">Talking
Wheelchair Blues</span></span><span style=""></span></a><span style=""><span style="font-size:9.0pt">:
</span></span><span style=""><span style=""></span></span></b></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in; color: red;"><b><span style=""></span><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfNoMJ1GYzM__;!!KGKeukY!0XtRf5uloojK1FqQ2vtj8R2LZoMn4HLecNm1QMn5csZEcp6H0yb9hVr7CG-Xrt1WjTuFs7nZtmu33StDqA$"><span style=""><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: red;">Fighting</span></span><span style=""></span></a><span style=""><span style=""></span></span></b></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in; color: rgb(112, 48, 160);"><b><span style=""></span><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/music.youtube.com/tasteprofile__;!!KGKeukY!0XtRf5uloojK1FqQ2vtj8R2LZoMn4HLecNm1QMn5csZEcp6H0yb9hVr7CG-Xrt1WjTuFs7nZtmtqWUhPuQ$"><span style=""><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(112, 48, 160);">Pride</span></span><span style=""></span></a><span style=""><span style=""></span></span></b></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in; color: rgb(255, 0, 244);"><b><span style=""></span><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=gBhYSW0l9pU__;!!KGKeukY!0XtRf5uloojK1FqQ2vtj8R2LZoMn4HLecNm1QMn5csZEcp6H0yb9hVr7CG-Xrt1WjTuFs7nZtmt0rNpOxQ$"><span style=""><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(255, 0, 244);">Fire
in the Rain </span></span><span style=""></span></a><span style=""><span style=""></span></span></b></li></ul>
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