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Marilyn Golden, Effective Voice for the Disabled, Dies at 67

“Radicalized” after an accident left her disabled, she became a “linchpin” in the fight for the Americans With Disabilities Act as a leading policy analyst.

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Marilyn Golden with Senator Tom Harkin, Democrat of Iowa, when they worked together on passage of the landmark Americans With Disabilities Act in 1990.Credit…via Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund

By Sam Roberts

Sept. 28, 2021

Marilyn Golden was a college student on a summer backpacking trip in Switzerland when she fell from a tree after a rotting limb snapped. Her back was broken. She spent two years of rehabilitation at Houston Medical Center and had used a wheelchair ever since.

“I got radicalized, in a general sense, after I got hurt,” she said.

Ms. Golden would devote the rest of her life to championing civil rights for people with disabilities, all the while rejecting [...]

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