Slideshow - Independent Living Grows

^{Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement Archive, Courtesy of the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley}

Wheelchair rider and student John Thorn, photographed in front of Sather Gate, University of California, 1977.

^{Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement Archive, Courtesy of the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley}

Word was out: students with disabilities at the University of California, Berkeley were bonding and making trouble. Here, wheelchair rider Judy Taylor features on the cover of the December issue of California Monthly, December 1976.

Berkeley City Council authorized 125 curb cuts in January 1973. Dots with numbers mark them on the map below.

^{Courtesy CIL}

Center for Independent Living Group Photo.