Despite the fact that there have been lots of laws created that try to protect and support disabled people these haven’t always meant that disabled people aren’t discriminated against.
Disabled people have always had to fight in order to have the support they require and the rights they deserve.
Here are some pictures of the protests disabled people have led.



Disabled people hand in petition. Disabled women’s are pushed in their wheelchairs along whitehall to downing street to hand in a petition to the prime minister, Harold Wilson. The women formed a small delegation of from over 200 members of the Disablement Income Group who gathered in Trafalgar Square to draw attention to the issues of disabled people, 30th July 1967.




