She won three Paralympic gold medals after losing part of her leg to cancer.
People with Disabilities
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Team Hoyt became a beloved fixture of the Boston Marathon.
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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.