Max Starkloff
Max Starkloff (1937, St. Louis, Missouri - December, 2010) was a disability rights activist. Starkloff became disabled in a car accident in 1959 and subsequently co-founded three organizations:[1]
- Paraquad, an independent living center, in 1970, then one of the first ten such federally funded centers;[2]
- the National Council on Independent Living, in 1983 (with Marca Bristo and Charlie Carr); and
- the Starkloff Disability Institute, co-founded with Colleen, his wife, in 2003.
Starkloff lobbied for legislation for curb cuts and disabled parking, as well as the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. He won a President’s Distinguished Service Award in 1991, and was awarded a star on the St. Louis Walk of Fame.[3]
References
- ↑ Entry text from star on St. Louis Walk of Fame.
- ↑ "Max Starkloff". Starkloff Disability Institute. Retrieved 27 October 2015.
- ↑ "St. Louis Walk of Fame Inductees". stlouiswalkoffame.org. Retrieved 25 April 2013.
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