The disabled century. Part 3, 1970-present.
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- 1999
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The last in a three-part series which looks back over the last one hundred years of disability. This part begins with accounts from people incarcerated due to mental ill-health - Richard describes how difficult it was to get out of a psychiatric institution and the horrors of electroconvulsive therapy. Disabled people were titled 'socially dead' and moved into homes around the country. Arthur and Penny, a couple with dwarfism describe how they met working at a circus and ... talks about her first meeting with the Restricted Growth Society where she met other people her size for the first time. Eileen describes how she met her husband Ken and that released her from institutions and opened up a different life to her but he tragically died. Direct Action Network talk about fighting the law to get access which was the key struggle in the '90s. Louise Medus-Mansell describes her wedding day and Mat Fraser talks about being proud of his disability.
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