Carrie Buck was the first person involuntarily sterilized under Virginia’s eugenics laws. In Buck v. Bell (1927), the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Virginia’s law was constitutional and that Buck should be sterilized, the first of approximately 8,300 performed under state law between 1927 and 1972.
Born in Mexico City, María Fernanda García Reyna studied graphic design at the Universidad Iberoamericana, and went on to work as a creative director with several national and transnational advertising agencies, earning awards and other recognitions in advertising.
Blind teacher of Helen Keller
Australian human rights and disability rights activist
American painter overshadowed by her husband
Called the “best whip in California,” Charley Parkhurst was a legendary six-horse stagecoach driver during California’s Gold Rush.
Defendant in the landmark disability rights case Olmstead v. L.C.
Pioneer in the Deaf women’s rights movement
Dr. Helen Taussig was the first woman to become the president of the American Heart Association.
Nonbinary femme poet, writer and intersectional activist, who advocates for disability justice as well as for Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Trans (LGBT+) and Black, Indigenous, and People Of Color (BIPOC) rights.