Changing America's consciousness: A brief history of the independent living civil rights movement in the United States

‘I am not a victim of polio’. On Sunday, March 19, 1995, about 1,000 people watched a clip of Ed Roberts, a man significantly physically impaired from the neck down with quadriplegia since a young age by the onset of polio, a person who required the aid of a portable respirator and an ‘iron lung’ for breathing, inform national talk show host Larry King that he did not consider himself a victim. We travelled to Berkeley, California, from all over the nation to say goodbye to Ed.