Clenora Hudson-weems

The Rosa Parks of the Disabled Movement: Plantation Politics and a Black Woman's Struggle Against Gm, Uaw and Government Bureaucrats Clenora Hudson-weems

Dora and Denise Anderson have committed themselves to a twenty-year struggle to address the wrongs that Denise suffered while employed at General Motors (GM) in Kansas City, Kansas. She was hired in 1982, under the protection of the 1973 Rehabilitation Act, which was a predecessor of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990. After six and a half years of success as a GM employee, she suffered an on-the-job injury, which was brought about by GM's negligence; however, they refused to allow her to return to work after receiving her medical release from her physicians.