jan 1, 1973 - Pub. L. 93-112-Section 504 of the 1973 Rehabilitation Act was the first civil rights law to protect the rights of disabled people. The language was almost identical to that of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which applied to racial discrimination, and of Title IX of the Education Amendment of 1972, which dealt with discrimination in education on the basis of gender. Section 504 stated that "no otherwise qualified handicapped individual in the United States shall, solely by reason of his (or her) handicap, be
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