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==People with physical disabilities==
The [[League of the Physically Handicapped]] in New York was organized in May 1935 to end discrimination by the WPA against the physically disabled unemployed.<ref name="longmore">{{cite journal|last1=Longmore|first1=PK|author-link= Paul K. Longmore|last2=Goldberger|first2=David|title=The League of the Physically Handicapped and the Great Depression: A Case Study in the New Disability History|journal=The Journal of American History|date=December 2000|volume=87|issue=3|pages=888–922|doi=10.2307/2675276|jstor=2675276|pmid=17639642}}</ref> The city's [[Home Relief|Home Relief Bureau]] coded applications by the physically disabled applicants as "PH" ("physically handicapped"). Thus they were not hired by the WPA.<ref name="isr">{{cite web|last1=Rosenthal|first1=Keith|title=Pioneers in the fight for disability rights The League of the Physically Handicapped|url=https://isreview.org/issue/90/pioneers-fight-disability-rights|website=International Socialist Review|access-date=29 April 2018}}</ref> In protest, the League held two [[sit-ins]] in 1935.<ref name="isr"/><ref name="nyt">{{cite news|title=PLEA BY DISABLED PUT TO WPA CHIEF; New York Group, Camping in Washington, Will Consult Williams Again Today|newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1937/08/17/archives/plea-by-disabled-put-to-wpa-chief-new-york-group-camping-in.html|access-date=29 April 2018|date=August 17, 1937}}</ref> The WPA relented and created 1,500 jobs for physically disabled workers in New York City.<ref name="zames">{{cite book|last1=Fleischer|first1=Doris Zames|last2=Zames|first2=Frieda|title=The Disability Rights Movement: From Charity to Confrontation|url=https://archive.org/details/disabilityrights0000flei|url-access=registration|date=2001|publisher=Temple University Press|location=Philadelphia|isbn=1439907447|page=906}}</ref><ref name="timeline">{{cite web|title=Disability History Timeline |url=http://isc.temple.edu/neighbor/ds/disabilityrightstimeline.htm |website=Rehabilitation Research & Training Center on Independent Living Management. |publisher=Temple University |access-date=23 January 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131220065328/http://isc.temple.edu/neighbor/ds/disabilityrightstimeline.htm |archive-date=20 December 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="consumer">{{cite journal|last1=Longmore|first1=PK|author-link=Paul K. Longmore|title=Disability Policy and Politics: Considering Consumer Influence|journal=Journal of Disability Policy Studies|date=January 2000|volume=11|issue=1|pages=36–44|doi=10.1177/104420730001100111|s2cid=145123577}}</ref>