Home » Exhibit Area » Exhibit 7 Case View
"Hire the Handicapped" - Vocational Rehabilitation for Disabled Persons
Like World War I, World War II added thousands of disabled persons to the country’s population and fueled a desire to create opportunities so that they could become productive citizens. The motivation for the “Hire the Handicapped” campaigns of the post-war era was the desire to move disabled people off social welfare and charity and into paying jobs where they could care for themselves... [continue here]
Top shelf: Photographs of Goodwill Industries of Northwest Ohio (1950-1970s); cover of the Spring 1960 issue of Building Goodwill. On loan from Goodwill Industries of Northwest Ohio, Inc.View selected exhibits on this shelf...
Middle shelf: Two University of Toledo Master Theses (An investigation into employers' attitudes toward employment of the handicapped in the city of Toledo, Ohio, 1948;A study of the relationship between the training and the employment of handicapped adults in the Toledo metropolitan area, 1962) investigating employer attitudes towards handicapped employees and the rehabilitation and employment of handicapped people. Read these works for details on this part of the exhibit.
Bottom shelf: Promotional brochures from 1962 on rehabilitating and employing disabled people; a 1986 report of the President's Commission on Employment of the Handicapped; 1977 programs and reports of the White House Conference on Handicapped Individuals. View selected exhibits on this shelf...
Referenced Canaday Center collections: