Americans with Disabilities Act
... The Americans with Disabilities Act would send a message to the non-disabled. ... Much like the plight of the African Americans, the disabled were living in separate communities with their own kind. ... Though that was the longest protest, there were many more that followed and finally disabled Americans all over the United States reached a milestone. ... They were being empowered with the right to seek the same things the same things that able bodied Americans did. ... People with disabilities were long denied housing because people felt that their presence in neighborhoods would devalue their property.