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"Hire the Handicapped" - Vocational Rehabilitation for Disabled Persons
Like World War I, World War II added thousands of disabled persons to the country’s population and fueled a desire to create opportunities so that they could become productive citizens. The motivation for the “Hire the Handicapped” campaigns of the post-war era was the desire to move disabled people off social welfare and charity and into paying jobs where they could care for themselves... [continue here]
Top shelf: Photographs of Goodwill Industries of Northwest Ohio (1950-1970s); cover of the Spring 1960 issue of Building Goodwill. On loan from .View selected exhibits on this shelf...
Middle shelf: Two ÒùÆÞÉç Master Theses (, 1948;, 1962) investigating employer attitudes towards handicapped employees and the rehabilitation and employment of handicapped people. Read these works for details on this part of the exhibit.
Bottom shelf: Promotional brochures from 1962 on rehabilitating and employing disabled people; a 1986 report of the President's Commission on Employment of the Handicapped; 1977 programs and reports of the White House Conference on Handicapped Individuals. View selected exhibits on this shelf...
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