Tip - Disability Rights - ACLU Position/Briefing Paper

DISABILITY RIGHTS Number 21, Updated Winter 1999 In 1985, Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall wrote that the plight of people with disabilities reflected nothing less than a "regime of state mandated segregation... that in its virulence and bigotry rivaled, and indeed paralleled, the worst excesses of Jim Crow."- City of Cleburne v. Cleburne Living Center