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May

Global Accessibility Awareness Day is the third Thursday of May each year

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Charles Arnold Cofield in a manual wheelchair on a curb cut. He wears a white collared shirt, black jacket and light striped pants. He has short black hair, blue eyeglasses, and he gazes down and to his left.

Dr. Charles Arnold Cofield

Douglas Tilden's sculpture The Football Players at the UC Berkeley campus. The patina-streaked statue shows a kneeling man bandaging the left leg of another, who stands and rests his left hand on the kneeler's back. He holds a football under his right arm and gazes downward.

Douglas Tilden

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Black and white photo of a young woman, Carrie Buck, with short brown hair sits outside on a bench next to her mother, Emma Buck, whose light hair is pulled up. Both women wear long light-colored dresses and stare at the camera with furrowed eyebrows and serious expressions. Emma rests her right hand on Carrie's left shoulder.

Buck v. Bell decided (1927)

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Emanuel Xavier with short brown hair, thin mustache wears a silver stud earring, silver tie, white shirt, and dark jacket. He stands in front of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe and a large painting of Pedro Pietri, a founding poet of the cafe. Xavier places his hands in his dark jean pockets and rests his thumbs on top of his black belt.

Emanuel Xavier

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Paul Steven Miller at a wooden desk wearing a dark suit jacket, blue shirt, red, yellow, and brown bow tie, and glasses gestures with both hands as if chatting with someone to his right. He has a receding hairline and salt-and-pepper mustache and beard.

Paul Steven Miller

Black and white photo of Odette Shotwell in a long white lab coat and glasses working in a lab.

Dr. Odette L. Shotwell

Cover of Prescott's book History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic

William Hickling Prescott

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