2371. Jamie Beck - From High School to a Nursing Home (05:37)

Date:
2017-02-07
Main contributors:
Indiana Disability History Project
Summary:
"He asked me if I wanted out. I said yeah, do what it takes to get me out." Jamie Beck shared her story about how she ended up living in a nursing home shortly after graduating from high school. She says her father's stage four cancer led to her placement there. After trying to make the best of a bad situation, Jamie spoke up and told her guardian she wanted out. Today Jamie lives in a home and works part-time in the community. She was interviewed in Indianapolis in 2016.

2372. Complex Identities: Hoosiers with Disabilities from Minoritized Communities (11:00)

Date:
2022-09-30
Main contributors:
Indiana Disability History Project
Summary:
"We have been omitted for such a long time. It's as if we don't matter," observes Gary resident Tony Blair. Like other people of color with disabilities, he is a member of multiple minoritized communities. The concept of intersectionality was theorized by civil rights advocate and legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw. This video draws upon themes that emerged in remote interviews with Hoosiers with disabilities who have experienced intersectionality in their daily lives. Interviewees talk about the experience of being doubly minoritized. Ronelle Johnson shares, "Honestly my sign language is white. I don't have an identity as a Black person because I grew up at the Deaf School." As a child paralyzed by polio, Ecuadorian immigrant Zully Alvarado says she was "uprooted from my culture," and "placed with a family, total strangers, a white family. They did not speak my language." Eight individuals describe lives complicated by their multiple, marginalized identities and the overlapping systems of oppression they must navigate. They describe first-hand encounters with injustice and how they have worked to end those injustices.

2373. New Castle State Developmental Center Investigation WISH-TV8 - Part Five (02:29)

Date:
2018-03-22
Main contributors:
WISH-TV
Summary:
In 1997, WISH-TV secretly filmed resident abuse by employees inside New Castle State Developmental Center in New Castle, Indiana. The impact of making the disturbing, hidden camera footage public was the closure of the Center in 1998. Channel 8, the Indianapolis station affiliated with CBS, broadcast their footage as part of a series of seven investigative reports aired between May 5 and May 13, 1997. Indiana Governor Frank O'Bannon visited the Center the day after the first TV report. An AP news article published May 7 said that the Governor was "outraged." "If you had loved ones in one of these state facilities you'd be worried about them." "No citizen's tax dollars should be paying for abuse and not care." Two employees had been fired before the report aired, and three workers suspended. Portions of the WISH-TV reports were broadcast nationally by CBS news with anchor Dan Rather. Originally known as the Indiana Village for Epileptics, the institution opened in 1907 on 1300 acres in rural Henry County. Although its purpose was to serve patients with convulsive disorders, the mission later broadened to include intellectual and other disabilities. This is a video of the fifth WISH-TV news report about abuse at the New Castle State Developmental Center, broadcast on May 9, 1997. It is included in the Indiana Disability History Project collection with permission of the station.

2374. Pat Barber - Segregated Education for Children with Disabilities (03:38)

Date:
2019-02-12
Main contributors:
Indiana Disability History Project
Summary:
“No children were really served in a community setting, in a public school, especially children with moderate to severe disabilities,” explains Pat Barber. Pat received her special education degree in the early 1970s from Indiana University. She started her teaching career at Stone Belt Center in Bloomington, Indiana. There were several classrooms in the building set up for infants to school age children. Pat describes what a school experience was like for a child with disabilities attending the Stone Belt Center. Pat was interviewed in 2017.

2375. Margaret Blome - Services Were Hard to Find (05:41)

Date:
2017-08-15
Main contributors:
Indiana Disability History Project
Summary:
When talking about services in the ‘60s and ‘70s, Margaret Blome says, “There was very little available for people with multi-handicaps.” Margaret did find a therapist at Crossroads Rehabilitation Center in Indianapolis who worked with her daughter, Barb, on learning to crawl, how to drink from a straw and other basic skills. When Barb was kindergarten age, Margaret found it difficult to find educational opportunities for her daughter. At the St. Mary’s Child Center, Margaret was introduced to other mothers who had children with disabilities. They formed a support group that met twice a week for two years. Margaret says, “I think overall, I was pretty supported.” Her parents said they would back any decisions she would make. Over the years, Margaret’s neighbors have been supportive. She says, “I said I couldn’t move. I have to educate another whole neighborhood.”

2377. Al Tolbert - ADA Interview (24:18)

Date:
2009-11-16
Main contributors:
Indiana Disability History Project
Summary:
“Back in the '80s, we didn't think about the Independent Living movement being a civil rights thing.” With the introduction of Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) legislation prior to its passage in 1990, says Al Tolbert, “the Independent Living movement became more or less a civil rights movement.” Al was a longtime executive director for Southern Indiana Center for Independent Living when he was interviewed in 2009. He was also a board member of the Indiana Statewide Independent Living Council, and president of Paralyzed Hoosiers Veterans at that time. He is a past national director for Paralyzed Veterans of America (PVA). In this interview, he talks about the Independent Living movement and his involvement with advancement of the ADA both nationally and in Indiana. He also discusses issues faced by veterans with disabilities in the context of his work with veterans organizations and his personal experience as a veteran with paraplegia since 1971. Al traveled to Washington, D.C. with Paralyzed Veterans of America representatives several times to lobby for the ADA . Al points out that “Justin Dart said there would be no ADA without PVA.” (Justin Dart Jr. is known as the “father of the ADA.”) In Indiana, there was animosity to the proposed legislation from some quarters. Many people didn’t take it seriously, he recalls, or didn’t see a need for it. Al was based in the town of Bedford. “I remember the chamber of commerce was not in favor of it. We were getting a lot of mail telling us that this is going to put people out of work; it's going to be a hindrance for small business.” Al relates his own experience as a veteran who didn’t have assistance to deal with his newly acquired disability. Decades later, he believes the military could do a better job providing information to service members with disabilities before their discharge. The message they receive is ”You've served, just go on home and we won't worry about you,” he says.

2378. New Castle State Developmental Center Investigation WISH-TV8 - Part Seven (03:27)

Date:
2018-03-21
Main contributors:
WISH-TV
Summary:
In 1997, WISH-TV secretly filmed resident abuse by employees inside New Castle State Developmental Center in New Castle, Indiana. The impact of making the disturbing, hidden camera footage public was the closure of the Center in 1998. Channel 8, the Indianapolis station affiliated with CBS, broadcast their footage as part of a series of seven investigative reports aired between May 5 and May 13, 1997. Indiana Governor Frank O'Bannon visited the Center the day after the first TV report. An AP news article published May 7 said that the Governor was "outraged." "If you had loved ones in one of these state facilities you'd be worried about them." "No citizen's tax dollars should be paying for abuse and not care." Two employees had been fired before the report aired, and three workers suspended. Portions of the WISH-TV reports were broadcast nationally by CBS news with anchor Dan Rather. Originally known as the Indiana Village for Epileptics, the institution opened in 1907 on 1300 acres in rural Henry County. Although its purpose was to serve patients with convulsive disorders, the mission later broadened to include intellectual and other disabilities. This is a video of the seventh (final) WISH-TV news report about abuse at the New Castle State Developmental Center, broadcast on May 13, 1997. It is included in the Indiana Disability History Project collection with permission of the station.

2379. New Castle State Developmental Center Investigation WISH-TV8 - Part Six (07:36)

Date:
2018-03-18
Main contributors:
WISH-TV
Summary:
In 1997, WISH-TV secretly filmed resident abuse by employees inside New Castle State Developmental Center in New Castle, Indiana. The impact of making the disturbing, hidden camera footage public was the closure of the Center in 1998. Channel 8, the Indianapolis station affiliated with CBS, broadcast their footage as part of a series of seven investigative reports aired between May 5 and May 13, 1997. Indiana Governor Frank O'Bannon visited the Center the day after the first TV report. An AP news article published May 7 said that the Governor was "outraged." "If you had loved ones in one of these state facilities you'd be worried about them." "No citizen's tax dollars should be paying for abuse and not care." Two employees had been fired before the report aired, and three workers suspended. Portions of the WISH-TV reports were broadcast nationally by CBS news with anchor Dan Rather. Originally known as the Indiana Village for Epileptics, the institution opened in 1907 on 1300 acres in rural Henry County. Although its purpose was to serve patients with convulsive disorders, the mission later broadened to include intellectual and other disabilities. This is a video of the sixth WISH-TV news report about abuse at the New Castle State Developmental Center, broadcast on May 12, 1997. It is included in the Indiana Disability History Project collection with permission of the station.

2380. New Castle State Developmental Center Investigation WISH-TV8 - Part Four (04:53)

Date:
2018-03-22
Main contributors:
WISH-TV
Summary:
In 1997, WISH-TV secretly filmed resident abuse by employees inside New Castle State Developmental Center in New Castle, Indiana. The impact of making the disturbing, hidden camera footage public was the closure of the Center in 1998. Channel 8, the Indianapolis station affiliated with CBS, broadcast their footage as part of a series of seven investigative reports aired between May 5 and May 13, 1997. Indiana Governor Frank O'Bannon visited the Center the day after the first TV report. An AP news article published May 7 said that the Governor was "outraged." "If you had loved ones in one of these state facilities you'd be worried about them." "No citizen's tax dollars should be paying for abuse and not care." Two employees had been fired before the report aired, and three workers suspended. Portions of the WISH-TV reports were broadcast nationally by CBS news with anchor Dan Rather. Originally known as the Indiana Village for Epileptics, the institution opened in 1907 on 1300 acres in rural Henry County. Although its purpose was to serve patients with convulsive disorders, the mission later broadened to include intellectual and other disabilities. This is a video of the fourth WISH-TV news report about abuse at the New Castle State Developmental Center, broadcast on May 8, 1997. It is included in the Indiana Disability History Project collection with permission of the station.