Essential Understandings:
1. Other activists were inspired by the achievements of the Civil Rights Movement and took action to gain equality.
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Capital Crawl:
How did activists protest and shock the government in order to gain equality for Americans with disabilities?
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Ugly laws & the Capital Crawl:
From the mid-1700's through 1970's, cities in the United States passed a series of "Ugly Laws" which were ordinances that prohibited many Americans from appearing in public:
"These laws deemed it illegal for "any person, who is diseased, maimed, mutilated or deformed in any way, so as to be an unsightly or disgusting object, to expose himself to public view." - Wikipedia
"These laws deemed it illegal for "any person, who is diseased, maimed, mutilated or deformed in any way, so as to be an unsightly or disgusting object, to expose himself to public view." - Wikipedia