{"id":355,"date":"2019-02-01T08:00:08","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T16:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/4nl.bfd.mywebsitetransfer.com\/blog\/?p=355"},"modified":"2019-01-31T16:36:57","modified_gmt":"2019-02-01T00:36:57","slug":"californias-black-disability-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/4nl.bfd.mywebsitetransfer.com\/blog\/californias-black-disability-history\/","title":{"rendered":"California\u2019s Black Disability History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"Compilation
California Pioneers from left to right: Johnnie Lacy, Joyce Jackson, Donald Galloway, and Bradley Lomax. Original photos by Ken Stein.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n

In honor of Black History Month, we at the California Foundation of Independent Living Centers felt that it was only fitting to highlight a few of the Black leaders with disabilities who pioneered the Independent Living Movement.<\/p>\n

Donald Galloway<\/strong>
You may remember seeing the photo of Donald Galloway from the 1970s. He\u2019s rocking an afro hairstyle; he\u2019s with his guide dog and Ed Roberts (the Father of the Independent Living Movement)<\/a> .<\/p>\n

Mr. Galloway was a folk singer as a young man, received a master\u2019s degree in social work and, in 1978, became Jamaica\u2019s Peace Corps director.[i]<\/a><\/p>\n

In the mid-1970s Mr. Galloway was the head of blind services and the Black caucus at the Center for Independent Living, Berkeley and a member of the National Council on Independent Living (NCIL)<\/a> minority caucus.[ii]<\/a><\/p>\n

Learn more about Donald Galloway<\/a><\/p>\n

Johnnie Lacy<\/strong>
Johnnie Lacy was a cherished Hayward area community and civil rights advocate and was named Woman of the Year by the California State Senate in 1988.<\/p>\n

After helping found Center for Independent Living – Berkeley, Ms. Lacy was encouraged to take over the helm at the newly created Community Resources for Independent Living (CRIL)<\/a> in Hayward where was the Director for over a decade.<\/p>\n

Learn more about Johnnie Lacy<\/a><\/p>\n

Bradley Lomax
<\/strong>In the 1970\u2019s Bradley Lomax was an Oakland resident and member of the Black Panther Party (BPP). He also had Multiple Sclerosis and used a wheelchair.[iii]<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Recognizing the need for more disability services and supports in his own community, in 1975, Mr. Lomax approached Ed Roberts (who had helped found the Center for Independent Living in Berkeley in 1972), with a proposal to open a Center for Independent Living (CIL) in East Oakland under Black Panther sponsorship. Less than a year later, with Lomax as one of a two-person staff, the East Oakland CIL opened in a storefront, offering basic peer counseling and attendant referral.<\/p>\n

Learn more about Bradley Lomax<\/a><\/p>\n

Joyce Jackson<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bay Area native Joyce Jackson was a disability rights activist who participated among 150 severely disabled demonstrators and their supporters who occupied the San Francisco regional offices of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW), demanding enforcement of Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.[iv]<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Ms. Jackson was one of 20 activists sent to Washington, D.C., to meet with Carter administration officials and eventually convinced HEW officials to implement Section 504 \u2013 the landmark civil rights legislation prohibiting federally funded agencies, programs, and activities from discriminating against the people with disabilities.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Learn more about Joyce Jackson<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n

For more perspectives on these pioneers in Disability History, visit Ramp Your Voice<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n


[i]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/obituaries\/donald-galloway-advocate-of-rights-of-disabled-dies-at-73\/2011\/10\/31\/gIQAl93MdM_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.4ed46cb0001f<\/a>
[ii]<\/a> http:\/\/bancroft.berkeley.edu\/collections\/drilm\/collection\/items\/galloway.html<\/a>
[iii]<\/a> http:\/\/leadonnetwork.org\/wordpress\/2016\/02\/09\/black-disability-history-brad-lomax-black-panther-revolutionary-black-nationalism-and-disability-power\/<\/a>
[iv]<\/a> https:\/\/www.berkeleyside.com\/2014\/02\/17\/remembering-joyce-ardell-jackson<\/a> <\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In honor of Black History Month, we at the California Foundation of Independent Living Centers felt that it was only fitting to highlight a few of the Black leaders with disabilities who pioneered the Independent Living Movement: Johnnie Lacy, Joyce Jackson, Donald Galloway, and Bradley Lomax.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[26,31,34],"tags":[45,46,47,48],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/4nl.bfd.mywebsitetransfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/4nl.bfd.mywebsitetransfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/4nl.bfd.mywebsitetransfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4nl.bfd.mywebsitetransfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4nl.bfd.mywebsitetransfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/4nl.bfd.mywebsitetransfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":374,"href":"https:\/\/4nl.bfd.mywebsitetransfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions\/374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/4nl.bfd.mywebsitetransfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4nl.bfd.mywebsitetransfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4nl.bfd.mywebsitetransfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}