He won a gold medal in swimming at the first Special Olympics in 1968.
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Dick Thornburgh (1932–2020), former U.S. Attorney General and Pennsylvania governor
Thornburgh guided Pennsylvania through the 1979 Three Mile Island nuclear disaster.
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As a lawyer, she helped draft the Americans With Disabilities Act.
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Smith was U.S. ambassador to Ireland during the 1990s, working toward peace in Northern Ireland.
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Stacy Park Milbern (1987–2020), inspiration to Americans with disabilities, dies on 33rd birthday
Milbern’s activism stressed the importance of listening to LGBTQ+ and BIPOC voices in the disability community.
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Margaret Maughan (1928–2020), one of the first Paralympic gold medalists
by Kirk FoxWon gold medals in Archery and Swimming at the 1960 Paralympic Games
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Bruce Baker (1943–2020), invented Minspeak for nonverbal people’s AAC speech devices
Baker’s Minspeak uses combinations of icons to allow nonverbal people to communicate quickly and eloquently.
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No matter what challenges came their way, these women persisted.
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Paralyzed in an accident, original Mouseketeer Karen Pendleton became an advocate for those with disabilities
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Marca Bristo (1953–2019), advocate championed Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990
by Legacy StaffMarca Bristo, advocate for the disabled, who championed the Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990, died Sunday, Sept. 8, 2019, in Chicago, after a battle with cancer. She was 66.