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Curb Cuts

99% Invisible

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Introduction

The story of the first widespread urban curb cuts came to be. It starts with a movement that demanded society c disabled people in a new way. Ed roberts was central to that movement, and so were the hundreds of people who helped drag his wheelchair up constitution avenue,. right in the middle of washington, d c. They insisted it was a piece of american history.

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