Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/Justin Dart Jr. Virtual Edit-a-thon 2015

Justin Dart Jr. Virtual Edit-a-thon 2015
	USDOL ADA poster
When and Where
Date and Time	August 26, 2015 (Wednesday) through August 31, 2015 (Monday)
Address	An entirely virtual event!

Virtual Edit-a-thon to Commemorate Disability Rights Activist Justin W. Dart Jr. and the 25th Anniversary of the Americans With Disabilities Act edit

A virtual edit-a-thon to celebrate the memory of Justin Dart Jr. (born August 29, 1930), and to create and enhance articles on disability rights activism for the 25th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Sponsored by the National Museum of American History, the Executive Office of the President of the United States, the National Council on Disability, and Wikimedia DC

If you are interested in participating, please sign up below and/or share the results of your work done between August 26-31, 2015.

Goals edit

To encourage inexperienced editors and show them how they can contribute to Wikipedia
To improve a selection of Wikipedia articles related to disability topics
To make Smithsonian-held materials more openly linked
To increase awareness of the research resources freely available through libraries, archives, and museum

Participating remotely edit

Penny Richards (talk) 03:43, 25 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 05:28, 25 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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Articles to expand edit

Justin Whitlock Dart, Jr.
American Association of People with Disabilities
Post-Polio Health International see Polio Place website http://www.polioplace.org/
Marca Bristo
Max Starkloff
Walgreens Justin Whitlock Dart Sr. was an executive for the company, 1930-1940
Universal design
Patrisha Wright
ADAPT
Disability rights movement
Stetson (Dart's favorite hat brand)

New articles edit

Yoshiko Saji Dart Wife of Justin W. Dart, Jr. and also a disability activist. See "The life and occasionally scandalous times of Yoshiko Dart" by Josie Byzek with photos by Tom Olin, in Mouth (magazine) http://www.mouthmag.com/says/yoshiko_says.htm and article "Yoshiko Dart" in Bender Consulting Services, Inc. blog, March 28, 2012 http://www.benderconsult.com/blog/2012-03/yoshiko-dart and "United we shall overcome: A message from Yoshiko Dart" on the AAPD Power Grid blog, Nov. 23, 2011 http://www.aapd.com/resources/power-grid-blog/united.html
- Yoshiko Dart's entry would also be an appropriate project in September, for Wikipedia APA. All the more reason to get something started.Penny Richards (talk) 03:51, 25 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Evan J. Kemp, Jr. Activist for disability rights; see his New York Times obituary at http://www.nytimes.com/1997/08/14/us/evan-j-kemp-jr-60-champion-of-disabled.html and an editorial by Kemp in the New York Times, Sept. 3, 1981 http://www.nytimes.com/1981/09/03/opinion/aiding-the-disabled-no-pity-please.html and his obituary on the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission website http://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/history/45th/ada20/kemp.cfm
Paul G. Hearne Lawyer and activist for disability rights; obituary in the New York Times, May 10, 1998 http://www.nytimes.com/1998/05/10/us/paul-g-hearne-48-affable-champion-of-disabled-dies.html and his obituary and AAPD Hearne Leadership Awards Program information from the AAPD website http://www.aapd.com/take-action/the-aapd-hearne-leadership-awards-program.html
Michael Anagnos doesn't have an entry yet--director of Perkins School for the Blind in the 1880s
Helen Anne Henderson (Canadian journalist died April 2015)
Tom Olin, photographer
Sonsheree Giles, dancer (redlinked in AXIS Dance Company)
Ethel Bent Walsh (1923-2004), EEOC, Pregnancy Disability Act (Washington Post obit)
Encarna Conde, Spanish disability rights activist (she has an entry on Spanish wikipedia, if someone wants to translate: Encarna Conde
National Organization on Disability
Hale Zukas (b. 1943), member of the Rolling Quads [1]
Maria Rantho (d. 2002), South African disability rights activist [2]
Ron Mace (1941-1998), coined the term universal design
Everest and Jennings, first mass-manufacturer of wheelchairs [3]
Richard Devylder (1969-2015), transportation activist [4]
Lucy Spruill (1945-2015), transportation activist [5]
Michael A. Winter (1951-2013), NCIL president[6]
Donald L. Rasmussen (1928-2015), miner's health advocate [7]

Images to upload edit

https://www.flickr.com/photos/nationalmuseumofamericanhistory/sets/72157657296517198/page1/; also includes pdf's of relevant speeches etc. of Justin Dart Jr., from the National Museum of American History's Flickr page

Categories edit

Poliomyelitis (add Dart's name to the list)
Disability_rights_activists_from_the_United_States
Disability_in_the_United_States
United_States_disability_organizations

Resources edit

Pioneers in Disability Rights and Community Organizing: An Interview with Justin Dart, WNYIL (Western New York Independent Living, Inc.) on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hx30dRH4-6c
body/freedom/art: Rethinking Disability Through Art, from the National Museum of American History's blog, "O Say Can You See?" http://americanhistory.si.edu/blog/bodyfreedomart-rethinking-disability-through-art
The making of the ADA, from DREDF (Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund) http://dredf.org/2015/07/14/the-making-of-the-ada/ includes a video interview with Dart
Americans with Disabilities Act of 1989, video from C-SPAN, August 15, 1989 http://www.c-span.org/video/?8719-1/americans-disabilities-act-1989 Includes an interview with Justin Dart
Justin Dart Jr. Memorial Service, video from C-SPAN, July 26, 2002 http://www.c-span.org/video/?171512-1/justin-dart-jr-memorial-service
Justin Dart, the Industrialist and Friend of Reagan, Dies, New York Times obituary for Justin Dart Jr.'s father http://www.nytimes.com/1984/01/27/obituaries/justin-dart-the-industrialist-and-friend-of-reagan-dies.html
George H.W. Bush signs the Americans with Disabilities Act, July 26th, 1990, Gold Pictures, on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1K8fj0KcFk
The Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement Timeline, from ABC-CLIO Companion to the Disability Rights Movement, by Fred Pelka. ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara, 1997, available from the Bancroft Library website: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/collections/drilm/resources/timeline.html
EveryBody: An Artifact History of Disability in America, online exhibition from the National Museum of American History, https://everybody.si.edu/citizens/laws
Whatever Happened to Polio?, online exhibition from the National Museum of American History, http://amhistory.si.edu/polio/index.htm

Websites, library catalogs, & databases edit

Introduction to editing Wikipedia (Slideshare prepared by Sara Snyder for the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American edit-a-thon, May 2014)
National Museum of American History Archives Center http://americanhistory.si.edu/archives
Flickr Commons, Smithsonian Institution - http://www.flickr.com/photos/smithsonian/
Smithsonian Institution Archives Collections Search http://siarchives.si.edu/collections
Smithsonian Collections Search Center http://collections.si.edu/search/

Results edit

Add the titles of your new/upgraded articles here, and links to any uploaded images

Maria Rantho (new entry)
commons:Category:Justin Dart images here
Elizabeth E. Farrell (expanded a two-sentence stub into a more substantial article)
Everest and Jennings (new entry)

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Conflict of Interest edit

WikiProject Disability edit

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