UC Berkeley’s Bancroft Library recently acquired a
collection of personal papers, articles and photographs from local disability
rights advocate Anthony Tusler, offering students a look into four decades of
the disability rights movement.
According to Peter Hanff, deputy director of the Bancroft
Library, this collection will be added to the library’s Disability Rights and
Independent Living Movement archive, an archive that the library has been
adding to for “at least 25 years.” The archive began through a sequence of
gifts, but has since grown to include the library’s own additions in a
compilation of oral histories from disability rights activists.
“I think it’s just wonderful that Tusler reached out to
us,” Hanff said. “The fact that people are willing to share their successes
with us is wonderful. The fact that people who are studying all aspects of the
disability rights movement can access these primary sources is extremely
helpful.”
The collection features several notable photographs from
the mid-1970s, including several action shots by Tusler from the 26-day sit-in
at the U.S. Federal Building in San Francisco in 1977.
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