From the Washington Post:

Disability advocate Harold W. Snider, 61, who helped draft the Americans with Disabilities Act, has died at his home in Rockville, MD, after a heart attack.

Snider said his interest in advocacy began in childhood, when he was forced out of regular third-grade classes in Jacksonville, FL, because he was blind. His parents sued to keep him in, and he became the first blind student in the county to graduate from public school.

Snider was a former executive director of the National Council on Disability, and later worked with the National Federation of the Blind to develop a free audible newspaper and magazine service that claims more than 50,000 listeners.

(Family photo in the Washington Post)

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