Tuesday, July 26th, 2016

Twenty six years ago today, when President George H.W. Bush signed the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) into law, he called it “powerful in its simplicity” and explained, “It will ensure that people with disabilities are given the basic guarantees for which they have worked so long and so hard: independence, freedom of choice, control of their lives, the opportunity to blend fully and equally into the rich mosaic of the American mainstream.”   On the ADA’s 26th Anniversary, Vanita Gupta, Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division, shares stories of those whose lives have been changed by the Department of Justice’s enforcement efforts and reaffirms the Department’s commitment to fulfilling the great promise of the ADA.

To find out more about the ADA, call the Justice Department’s toll-free ADA Information Line at 800-514-0301 or 800-514-0383 (TTY), or access its ADA.gov website.

 Article Credit: U.S. Department of Justice

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