Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) (1990)

Erin CoffeyChris Pon

Danielle PerezHCOM 266

Signing of ADA 1964-1990

• Civil Rights Act 1964 • ADA 1990

Reasons

• Maintain equality for people who are substantially limited in “major life activity”

• Civil Rights Act of 1964- made discrimination based on race, religion, sex, national origin, and other characteristics illegal.

Logic and Reasoning

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ns7UY8HdPr8• "The goals of our public welfare program must be

positive and constructive. [The welfare program] must stress the integrity and preservation of the family unit. It must contribute to the attack on dependency, juvenile delinquency, family breakdown, illegitimacy, ill health, and disability. It must reduce the incidence of these problems, prevent their occurrence and recurrence, and strengthen and protect the vulnerable in a highly competitive world." - John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Titles of the ADA 1990

• Title I-Employment• Title II Public Entities• Title III Public Accommodations (and

commercial facilities)• Title IV Telecommunications• Title V Miscellaneous Provisions• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYAKQvE

mc2w&feature=relmfu

Limit? Or Democracy?

Sources

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYAKQvEmc2w&feature=relmfu

• http://www.disabled world.com/disability/disability-quotes.php#ixzz2AGCsLoAN

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYAKQvEmc2w&feature=relmfu