Lecture w/Bk. Signing by Lennard Davis

Lennard J. Davis is a nationally and internationally known American specialist in disability studies.

 

Lecture with Book Signing

Wednesday, July 29, at noon

McGowan Theater

Enabling Acts: The Hidden Story of How the Americans with Disabilities Act Gave the Largest US Minority Its Rights by Lennard Davis

 

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is the widest-ranging piece of civil rights legislation ever passed in the history of the United States, and it has become the model for most civil rights laws around the world. In his book Enabling Acts, author and professor Lennard Davis tells the untold story behind the act, which is a fascinating story of how a group of leftist Berkeley hippies managed to make an alliance with upper-crust, conservative Republicans to bring about a truly bipartisan bill. A book signing will follow the program.


Davis: Co-Chair, Eighteenth Century Seminar, Center for Literary Studies, Harvard University, 1987-89; Mellon Fellowship, Harvard University 1979-1980