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McDonald's official Dennis Morris talks with spokespersons for a group of protestors that use wheelchairs. The protestors are blocking entrances to the McDonald's located on Colfax Avenue and Pennsylvania Street demanding wheelchair access so that the experience of indoor dining can be available to all patrons (universal design) and accessible to people with disabilities (barrier-free design).

Ronald McDonald stop clowning around and make your stores accessible”: A story about Access Institute, McDonald’s and the fight for accessible spaces

Wade Blank, his son Lincoln, and fellow Atlantis cofounder Michael Auberger celebrate the laying of the plaque, dedicated to the original protesters - The Gang of 19 - who blocked the intersection to protest the inaccessible buses in 1978. WH2283/Box5/F16

"We Will Ride!" The Origin of the Disability Rights Movement in Denver

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