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The Story of Disability Justice

Americans Disabled for Accessible Public Transit is founded.

Date: 1983

The Story of Disability Justice
DCRJ

Americans Disabled for Accessible Public Transit (ADAPT) is organized at the Atlantis Community Headquarters in Denver, Colorado. Over the next several years, ADAPT will conduct a civil disobedience campaign against the American Public Transit Association (APTA) and various local public transit authorities to protest the lack of accessible public transportation.