How one 8-year-old girl changed history

Summary

The transcript details the grassroots disability rights movement led by A.D.A.P.T., which fought for accessible public spaces and civil rights for people with disabilities in the 1980s. Highlighting the dramatic Capitol Crawl protest in 1990, where activists like eight-year-old Jennifer Keelan crawled up the Capitol steps to draw attention to their cause, the movement successfully pushed for the Americans with Disabilities Act (A.D.A.). The Act was a groundbreaking civil rights legislation that prohibited discrimination and mandated reasonable accommodations, fundamentally transforming social access and opportunities for disabled Americans.