Upcoming Events at Cedar Rapids Public Library
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Lives Worth Living presented by the ADA Advisory Committee
<p>The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Advisory Committee is hosting a movie night featuring "Lives Worth Living" presented by Peer Action Disability Support (PADS) in Whipple Auditorium at the Downtown Library. <br>Light refreshments will be provided. The run time for the documentary is 60 minutes. <br>Trailer <a data-lynx-mode="hover" data-lynx-uri="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DRlXm9NJDacM%26fbclid%3DIwAR05XTta1qbmhgDIOhjYoc3dFZoBHBev-H6p9BYOoDe7pjKUJwh5IwNh2ik&h=AT3NLVcLPHVXT8HddZwWA_XsO0TaDMn6NVkKGhFWlTvYNYYmsypbGJwIPwPpDko-TejOSRqI30Ai02ZwP4xLs6ZoFtZJOCMXFusg81LfzhUnV3kZoC2xeVim_ofkQXZw" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlXm9NJDacM&fbclid=IwAR05XTta1qbmhgDIOhjYoc3dFZoBHBev-H6p9BYOoDe7pjKUJwh5IwNh2ik" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlXm9NJDacM</a> <br><br>You can also read a brief description below: <br><br>The Lives Worth Living is both an historical documentary about the Disability Rights Movement and a biography about one man's struggle to survive.<br>Charismatic leaders of the movement narrate the story of a long, hard, and successful drive for civil rights — a drive that brought together a once fragmented population into a powerful coalition that created some of the most far reaching civil rights legislation in our nation's history.<br>People with disabilities are one of the largest of any minority within our nation, and this is the first television history on the subject. It is a window into a world inhabited by people with an unwavering determination to live their lives like anyone else, and a passage into the past where millions of people lived without access to schools, apartment buildings, public transportation, etc. — a status quo today's generation cannot imagine. --ITVS </p> 2019-06-27 19:00:00 -0500
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