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The Radical Life of the Father of the Independent Living Movement
Oct 14, 2025

The Radical Life of the Father of the Independent Living Movement

Even attending university in the 1960s was a revolutionary and complicated process for Ed Roberts, who was paralyzed by polio in his early teens. Now known as the father of the independent living movement, Roberts—faced with many structural hurdles to moving through society—began pushing as a young man to win disabled people the resources to […]