Stephanie Wolfe
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 26 Jul
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The young residents of the nursing home received support through Medicaid.
Back then, it only paid for long-term medical and personal care inside nursing homes.
Institutionalization of Americans with disabilities of all ages was common back then.
Wade Blank, with the help of Rosenberg, began taking these young people out into the community.
They went to rock concerts and on camping trips.
That same year, in 1975, Blank co-founded a Denver group to help find housing and provide other services, including attendant care, for these young people who'd been stuck at the nursing home.
They called it Atlantis Community.
Blank convinced the city to lease public housing to residents leaving the nursing home.
But once these young people in wheelchairs were living out in the community, they quickly learned getting around town was tough.
Sidewalks lacked curb cuts, those sloped ramps down from the sidewalk to the roadway you see in most intersections today.
So those with physical disabilities couldn't easily and safely get from one block to another.
And even if they could, city buses weren't accessible.
Things came to a head when civil rights attorney John Holland learned that the Denver Metro Transit Agency was going to purchase more than 200 new buses.
Holland immediately called Wade Blank.
Blank directed one of them, a man named George Roberts, to get in line for the bus in his wheelchair.
Brian McLeod is one of the last living disabled activists from this demonstration.
A second person rolled their wheelchair in front of the bus.
They would become known as the Gang of 19.
And they were demanding access to get onto the bus and ride.
This is Barry Rosenberg again.
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