“If I Can’t do it”
What if I told you that a man who helped lead the disability rights movement, was someone who could not walk and struggles to talk and is diagnosed with cerebral palsy. If I were to tell you this, how much would you take it seriously and how much of it would you believe. This man is Arthur Campbell Jr. and he is a true American hero and someone everyone should look up to. He has achieved more in life than most people have with full function ability, which is something he has never let get in his way. Campbell, among other disabled people helped lead the disability movement all the way to Capitol Hill until they got what they wanted. But before and along the way they went through many hardships similar to that of the African Americans in the Civil Rights movement.
Born in Kentucky, Campbell and his family moved to Louisville to see what was wrong with Arthur. They found that Arthur was very much disabled and presumed he would die at a young age because that was normal with the symptoms he had. He was diagnosed with cerebral palsy but they did not call it
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It was the McDonalds strike that first sparked Arthur’s interest about disabled rights and he saw what a difference people could make by protesting and standing up for their beliefs. Soon after Arthur took on a local problem of Louisville’s, which was that, the TARK busses did not have an access point for disabled people. Arthur thought it was unfair that disabled people weren’t allowed to drive, and also couldn’t ride public transportation because there was no way to get on. Because of all of this Arthur fought the TARK system, called in help and started to peacefully protest. They eventually got what they wanted after annoying the TARK so bad while parking their wheelchairs in front of and behind busses so they could not