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NCD: Toward Independence

1986

 

The National Council on the Handicapped (now National Council on Disability, or NCD) issued its report Toward Independence ; legislative recommendations include enactment by Congress of a “comprehensive” equal opportunity law, “perhaps under such a title as ‘The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1986.’"

 

A report to the President and to the Congress of the United States

Last modified on 07/21/2020

    
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