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By the 1970s, one in four Americans lived with a disability. Yet, facing discrimination and arcane laws, only a fraction held jobs and many were institutionalized or lived in poverty. In 1972, a shocking exposé of the horrific abuses at New York's Willowbrook State School, the nation's largest institution for children with developmental disabilities, ignited a movement to lift disability out of the shadows. Across the country, a small group of disabled college students and community members form