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Virtual Edit-a-thon to Commemorate Disability Rights Activist Justin W. Dart Jr. and the 25th Anniversary of the Americans With Disabilities Act
A virtual edit-a-thon to celebrate the memory of Justin Dart Jr. (born August 29, 1930), and to create and enhance articles on disability rights activism for the 25th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Sponsored by the National Museum of American History, the Executive Office of the President of the United States, the National Council on Disability, and Wikimedia DC

If you are interested in participating, please sign up below and/or share the results of your work done between August 26-31, 2015.

Goals

 * To encourage inexperienced editors and show them how they can contribute to Wikipedia
 * To improve a selection of Wikipedia articles related to disability topics
 * To make Smithsonian-held materials more openly linked
 * To increase awareness of the research resources freely available through libraries, archives, and museum

Participating remotely
Rebecca Cokley
 * 1) Add your user name here

Suggested articles to create or edit
Below is a list of articles which could be created or expanded using information from the National Museum of American History's collections. This list is not exhaustive and you may edit or expand any additional Wikipedia articles on disability themes.

Articles to expand

 * Justin Whitlock Dart, Jr.
 * American_Association_of_People_with_Disabilities
 * Post-Polio_Health_International see Polio Place website http://www.polioplace.org/
 * Marca_Bristo
 * Max_Starkloff
 * Walgreens Justin Whitlock Dart Sr. was an executive for the company, 1930-1940
 * Universal_design
 * Patrisha_Wright
 * ADAPT
 * Disability_rights_movement
 * Stetson (Dart's favorite hat brand)

New articles

 * Yoshiko Saji Dart Wife of Justin W. Dart, Jr. and also a disability activist. See "The life and occasionally scandalous times of Yoshiko Dart" by Josie Byzek with photos by Tom Olin, in Mouth (magazine) http://www.mouthmag.com/says/yoshiko_says.htm and article "Yoshiko Dart" in Bender Consulting Services, Inc. blog, March 28, 2012 http://www.benderconsult.com/blog/2012-03/yoshiko-dart and "United we shall overcome: A message from Yoshiko Dart" on the AAPD Power Grid blog, Nov. 23, 2011 http://www.aapd.com/resources/power-grid-blog/united.html
 * Evan J. Kemp, Jr. Activist for disability rights; see his New York Times obituary at http://www.nytimes.com/1997/08/14/us/evan-j-kemp-jr-60-champion-of-disabled.html and an editorial by Kemp in the New York Times, Sept. 3, 1981 http://www.nytimes.com/1981/09/03/opinion/aiding-the-disabled-no-pity-please.html and his obituary on the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission website http://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/history/45th/ada20/kemp.cfm
 * Paul G. Hearne Lawyer and activist for disability rights; obituary in the New York Times, May 10, 1998 http://www.nytimes.com/1998/05/10/us/paul-g-hearne-48-affable-champion-of-disabled-dies.html and his obituary and AAPD Hearne Leadership Awards Program information from the AAPD website http://www.aapd.com/take-action/the-aapd-hearne-leadership-awards-program.html

Images to upload

 * https://www.flickr.com/photos/nationalmuseumofamericanhistory/sets/72157657296517198/page1/; also pdf's of relevant speeches etc. of Justin Dart Jr., from the National Museum of American History's Flickr page

Categories

 * Poliomyelitis (add Dart's name to the list)
 * Disability_rights_activists_from_the_United_States
 * Disability_in_the_United_States
 * United_States_disability_organizations

Resources

 * Pioneers in Disability Rights and Community Organizing: An Interview with Justin Dart, WNYIL (Western New York Independent Living, Inc.) on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hx30dRH4-6c
 * body/freedom/art: Rethinking Disability Through Art, from the National Museum of American History's blog, "O Say Can You See?" http://americanhistory.si.edu/blog/bodyfreedomart-rethinking-disability-through-art
 * The making of the ADA, from DREDF (Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund) http://dredf.org/2015/07/14/the-making-of-the-ada/ includes a video interview with Dart
 * Americans with Disabilities Act of 1989, video from C-SPAN, August 15, 1989 http://www.c-span.org/video/?8719-1/americans-disabilities-act-1989 Includes an interview with Justin Dart
 * Justin Dart Jr. Memorial Service, video from C-SPAN, July 26, 2002 http://www.c-span.org/video/?171512-1/justin-dart-jr-memorial-service
 * Justin Dart, the Industrialist and Friend of Reagan, Dies, New York Times obituary for Justin Dart Jr.'s father http://www.nytimes.com/1984/01/27/obituaries/justin-dart-the-industrialist-and-friend-of-reagan-dies.html
 * George H.W. Bush signs the Americans with Disabilities Act, July 26th, 1990, Gold Pictures, on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1K8fj0KcFk
 * The Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement Timeline, from ABC-CLIO Companion to the Disability Rights Movement, by Fred Pelka. ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara, 1997, available from the Bancroft Library website: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/collections/drilm/resources/timeline.html
 * EveryBody: An Artifact History of Disability in America, online exhibition from the National Museum of American History, https://everybody.si.edu/citizens/laws
 * Whatever Happened to Polio?, online exhibition from the National Museum of American History, http://amhistory.si.edu/polio/index.htm

Websites, library catalogs, & databases

 * Introduction to editing Wikipedia (Slideshare prepared by Sara Snyder for the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American edit-a-thon, May 2014)
 * National Museum of American History Archives Center http://americanhistory.si.edu/archives
 * Flickr Commons, Smithsonian Institution - http://www.flickr.com/photos/smithsonian/
 * Smithsonian Institution Archives Collections Search http://siarchives.si.edu/collections
 * Smithsonian Collections Search Center http://collections.si.edu/search/

Results

 * Add the titles of your new/upgraded articles here, and links to any uploaded images

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Tutorials on Wikipedia editing

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Editing Wikipedia resources

 * Beginners' Guide to Wikipedia (account creation, article editing)
 * Five Pillars of Wikipedia (philosophical guidelines and best practices for Wikipedia editing)
 * Tutorial
 * How to Edit a Page
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