Disability Rights Activism T-shirts, 1990s

The central T-shirt is white and has a logo with the American flag between text reading “ADA” and “America Wins.” Eleven pin-back buttons are arranged around the logo. One reads “What’s 504?” and another reads “Equal Opportunity Through Equal Access.” The others show a wheelchair user leaning forward with speed lines behind in blue over the red words “Go vote”; text reading “Disability Rights Clinton Gore ‘96” over a blue wheelchair pictogram; red text reading “Home Is Where the Heart Is” and “H.R. 2020” on a white background; hands fingerspelling “Clinton” and “Gore” next to “‘96” on blue and red; “Independence Day 1 July 26 1990, ADA, White House Signing Ceremony, G. Bush” in white against blue; and a cartoon-like house against a white and pink hear with text in black reading “H.R. 2020.” 

From left to right the other T-shirts appear as follows. First is a dark blue shirt with white and pale blue text that reads “Basic Access to Every New House. 32 inch wide doors (including bathrooms); One no-step entrance; Because you gotta visit friends and lovers!” A pictogram of a person wheeling themselves in a chair is at the top, and two ramps act as bullets next to the first two points. The next T-shirt has purple and white text that reads, “I Am NOT A Case, And I Don’t Need To Be Managed!” The word “not” is all caps, underlined, and italicized. Next is a black shirt with white text reading, “same struggle, different difference.” A pink shirt is printed with a 12-pointed star printed in green and yellow. The purple text above reads “Support-In” and “to Celebrate the Human Spirit” below. Text overlaid on the logo reads “Break the Silence” above and “about Psychiatric Oppression” below. A black T-shirt has a pictogram of a wheelchair user within a yellow disk. Yellow text around the pictograph reads, “Access Now 1990 We Will Ride” and in a box beneath, “Wheels of Justice Memphis.” Finally, a black T-shirt is printed with an acid-green rectangle in which black text reads, “Not Dead Yet” in all caps. The O in “not” is a wheelchair pictogram, and the worn lettering resembles text on an old gravestone.