VOICES OF VICTORY, CELEBRATION OF CIVIL RIGHTS
AND REMAINING CHALLENGES 
That’s what we need to do: to keep telling our stories. For too long, others
have told our stories for us, stories which reduced our civil rights to dollars
and cents,” Johnson-Wright said.
“Don’t apologize for being disabled.
Don’t hide in the shadows. We need more than just the ADA. We need to keep
pushing the cultural shift forward.”
Steve Wright
has contributed stories about travel, urban design and civil rights. He has been a professional journalist for 40
years and has covered disability rights and the built environment since before
the ADA was enacted. The Miami-based writer/activist gained all his insights
into the fundamental right to access and accommodation when he met his now-wife
of 30-plus years, Heidi Johnson-Wright, when both were studying at Kent State
University in the mid-1980s.
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