The Americans with Disabilities Act

Everybody gets to go everywhere and do everything.

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Build the world so everyone can join in.

✏️A child in a wheelchair looking up at a tall staircase with no way up, looking left out.

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People with disabilities were often left out — buildings had only stairs, and some jobs and schools said “no.” That wasn’t fair.

✏️People of all abilities protesting, some leaving their wheelchairs to climb the Capitol steps (the real “Capitol Crawl”).

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So they spoke up — and some even climbed the steps of the Capitol with their own arms to show what was in the way.

✏️A smooth ramp beside the stairs, an automatic door, a braille sign, and a kid in a wheelchair rolling in happily.

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Congress passed a law: build ramps, wide doors, and signs everyone can use. Give people with disabilities the same jobs and schools as everyone else.

✏️A playground where kids of every ability play together, ramps and swings for all.

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Now the world gets built for everybody. Because everybody belongs.