Google Doodle honors disability rights activist Ed Roberts Monday's Doodle honors one of the pioneers in the disability rights movement. Tech Culture by Dan Graziano January 23, 2017.
Up Next At Trump's inauguration, tech sputters Google Google celebrated what would have been the 78th birthday of disability rights activities Ed Roberts on Monday with a new Doodle. Roberts contracted polio at the age of 14 and was a paralyzed from the neck down. For the next 43 years, he used a wheelchair and had to sleep in an 800-pound iron lung at night. The activist, however, didn't let his disability stop him from pursuing dreams, such as earning a college degree. Roberts became the first student with severe disabilities to attend the University of California at Berkeley, where he helped others by creating the Physically Disabled Students Program. "Roberts went on to earn his bachelor's and master's degrees in political science from Berkeley, and later returned to lead the Berkeley Center for Independent Living, which inspired many similar centers around the US," Google noted in a biography of Roberts . "In 1976, Gov. Jerry Brown appointed him director of the California Department of Vocational Rehabilitation, and in 1983 he co-founded the World Institute on Disability. Roberts died on March 14, 1995. He was 56 years old. .
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