Joseph Shapiro
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255 appearances
8 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 26 Jul
Joseph Shapiro’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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They sued, but lost in court.
Blank felt they needed a new tactic.
He was a student of the civil rights movement and of civil disobedience.
So in that summer of 1978, just days after they lost their court case...
he asked the disabled people he'd met at the nursing home to take their fight to the streets of downtown Denver, to one of the busiest intersections in the city, at a bus stop near the state capitol building.
We have a right to ride on the buses, so I think that probably it'd be a good idea to go out and board a few buses.
So on July 5th,
George Roberts sat patiently at the bus stop waiting for the next bus to come.
When the doors opened, he said, can I get on?
This is Blank at a commemoration event for the protest.
He recalled that since there was no wheelchair lift, the driver was confused.
And when the bus driver closed the door,
saying no to George, we gave a hand signal and all the other 18 moved into the streets and blocked that bus.
19 people in wheelchairs surrounded the two city buses.
They held signs that said things like, taxation without transportation.
And they chanted in the streets.
And we stayed in the streets all night until 10 o'clock the next day, July the 6th.
That was our shot around the world.
When the police came after the buses were occupied, the police came and they shouted and they got in people's face and no one budged.
No one spoke, no one talked back.
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