Karen Vaughn - Opening Doors to Access for All

Karen Vaughn - Opening Doors to Access for All

Advocacy

Disability Rights Movement

“When I was young I knew nothing about any legislative activities or laws that would allow an individual with a disability to have any kind of civil rights because I stayed in several nursing homes and at that time, there were no patients' rights,” states Karen Vaughn. In 2009, Karen Vaughn visited the Story Tent at the Indiana Governor’s Council for People with Disabilities conference and shared what she learned when she attended Partners in Policymaking and Disabilities Rights Education Defense Fund training in 1992. She took that information and assisted state parks with their ADA compliance plans.

Indiana Disability History Project

Center for Health Equity at the Indiana Institute on Disability and Community and Indiana Governor's Council for People with Disabilities

2018-06-22

Karen Vaughn - interviewee

Jennie Todd - interviewer

Peggy Holtz - videographer

Copyright © 2018 The Trustees of Indiana University

video/mp4

English

Moving Image

115-mi-01

Open to all users

"Karen Vaughn - Opening Doors for Access to All" YouTube video, 00:03:35, interview excerpt 115-mi-01 by the Indiana Disability History Project, posted by "Indiana Disability History" https://youtu.be/kA8GQp_3zQw

Indiana, Marion County, Indianapolis

1990s