Marilyn Saviola – Five Decades of Raising Hell for Her Community

• Marilyn Saviola, Disability Rights Advocate, Is Dead at 74
  Polio left her in a wheelchair. It also started her on a lifelong fight to change perceptions and break down real-world obstacles.
  By Neil Genzlinger
• N.Y. / REGION
  Accessible Homes? Not Really, Say Disabled Residents
  By GLENN COLLINSAUG. 24, 2008
• N.Y. / REGION
  U.S. Says Many Apartments Violate Law on Disabled
  By CHARLES V. BAGLI AUG. 18, 2008
• Many Still Seek One Final Say on Ending Life
  By John Schwartz and James Estrin
  June 17, 2005
• A Victor Fears For The Future
  Woman Sees Advances For the Disabled Imperiled by Budget Cuts
  By Douglas Martin
  April 29, 1997
• Disabled Women: A Conference on Discrimination
  ‘To Effect Change’ Other Barriers Mentioned Veterans Get Priority
  Marilyn Saviola, a quadraplegic polio victim, told a conference here yesterday that disabled women who are striving to be independent are caught in a “double bind” of discrimination.
• City Hall Protest Staged By Goldwater’s Patients
  By Ronald Smothers
  April 30, 1975
• Hospital Elects Community Board
  By Lacey Fosburgh
  Aug. 5, 1971
• University of California Oral History Project
  New York Activists and Leaders in the Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement: Vol I
  Interview with Marilyn conducted in 2001

Video – Watch Marilyn explain the critical importance of Consumer Directed Care – a service she helped to create – to the independence of people with disabilities.