Our View: Anti-mask resolution misuses the Americans with Disabilities Act
Selectmen in the town of Paris, among others, are making a mockery of rights won by people with disabilities.
By The Editorial Board
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Thirty-one years ago this month, a group of protesters with disabilities threw down their wheelchairs and crutches and went up the 78 steps of the Capitol’s West Front, demanding their rights.
Known as the Capitol Crawl, it was the culmination of a decades-long and ultimately successful effort to get Congress to pass the Americans with Disability Act. It took one protester, an 8-year-old with cerebral palsy, almost an hour to get to the top.