Ep3: Disability. A Parallel History Darkest before the dawn

[3-part documentary] Episode 3 of 3 - Darkest before the dawn. 1900s - 2000s In this new Yarn Miniseries I’m going to give you a rough history of Disability. In episode three things start with one of modern history's darkest ideas, Eugenics. We explore its prevalence, especially in America and some of its most famous proponents. Then we jump over to Post WW2 Britain and we uncover how wars not only created Disabled people but how post war periods also led to infrastructure and programmes that helped people with disabilities. We will confront the horrific conditions Disabled residents of institutions were forced to live in and see how the era of the big institution eventually came to an end. We'll intersect with the Civil Rights movement and see how it inspired the Parent's movement, which led to the Independent Living movement and the fight for Human Rights for people with Disabilities. Written and narrated by John Roche. - Full episode transcript available here: - Sources Short history of disability By Dr Robert Jackson MN Department of Administration - Council on Development Disabilities World Bank Historic England History Channel PBS United Nations Human Rights Office of High Commissioner Dr. William Bronston, Willowbrook Memorial Lecture Welcome Collection IWM Archive RTE Archive The Times Archive Special Olympics JSTOR IPC Greek Gods info YouTube

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Ep3: Disability. A Parallel History Darkest before the dawn is an episode from Yarn story podcast by John Roche.

This episode is 00:48:43 long.

This episode was published on Nov 22, 2020.

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