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Western Pennsylvania Disability History and Action Consortium

Western Pennsylvania Disability History and Action Consortium

Honoring the historic struggle of Western Pennsylvanians with disabilities to attain human and civil rights.

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Consortium on Comcast Newsmakers

09/12/2019

Link to Video from Comcast Newsmakers: Untold Disability History

Project Director Mary Hartley sits down with Sheila Hyland to discuss: the Western Pennsylvania Disability History and Action Consortium’s work preserving and sharing disability history as well as some history of Polk State Center and its impending closure and the upcoming “We Count” voting event at Heinz History Center on October 10th.

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