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From "The Disability Leadership Series" 1999 - 2000 "Here's this delinquent kid sitting up there next to the President of the United States and…they're playing the Battle Hymn of the Republic. It's just like the end of a 1930's movie, you know? And then it occurred to me that it is not the end…Here are all these millions of people in the United States and half a billion people around the world whose futures will be determined by whether this law is successful or not." - Justin Dart Justin Whitlock Dart Jr was an American activist and advocate for people with disabilities. He helped to pass the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, co-founded the American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD), and is regarded as the "Godfather of the ADA". During his time at the University of Houston, which was then segregated, Dart organized the first student group to oppose racism. After graduating, Dart was a successful entrepreneur who founded three Japanese corporati