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Governor Robert B. Docking of Topeka, Kansas, issued this proclamation declaring April, 1974, the Legal Rights for Retarded Citizens Month. The proclamation affirms the legal rights of retarded persons to be the same as of other human beings, and outlines the manner in which such rights may be restricted, if necessary. Requests from the President's Committee on Mental Retardation of Washington, D.C. and Rainbows United, Inc. of Wichita, Kansas, prompted the proclamation. The disability rights movement became increasingly more visible in the 1970s as an extension of the civil rights movement of the 1960s. By 1990, the Americans with Disabilities Act sought to extend to disabled persons the same legal protections against discrimination available to other minorities under the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
Creator: Docking, Robert Blackwell, 1925-1983
Date: April 5, 1974
Item Number: 208339
Call Number: Governor's Records, Robert Docking, Box 37041, Folder "Legal Rights"
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 208339
Collections - State Archives - Governor's Records - Docking, Robert Blackwell
Community Life - Community services - Mental health facilities
Community Life - Community services - Nursing homes
Date - 1970s - 1974
Government and Politics - Reform and Protest - Civil rights
Government and Politics - Reform and Protest - Disability rights
Government and Politics - State Government - Governors - Docking, Robert Blackwell
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Proclamation
People - Persons with disabilities
Places - Cities and towns - Topeka
Places - Counties - Shawnee
Thematic Time Period - The Sixties and Vietnam, 1961 - 1975
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Government records
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