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Discovery Of Ed Roberts' Wheelchair
- Catherine Ott found Ed Roberts' customized wheelchair abandoned at the Smithsonian and asked why it was in storage.
- A note left with the chair identified it as Ed Roberts' and suggested it belonged at the museum.
Polio, Iron Lung, And Frog Breathing
- Ed Roberts contracted polio as a teenager and spent time in an iron lung, leaving him paralyzed below the neck.
- He taught himself
Disability As A Civil Rights Movement
- The Rolling Quads reframed disability as civil rights, demanding access to education, work, and public life.
- Their activism connected to wider 1960s movements and shifted public expectations about disabled people.