Film Screening & Director’s Q&A – “Hale”

Join California Historical Society and filmmaker Brad Bailey in a celebration of the grandfather of the disability movement, Hale Zukas. We will start with a few short remarks on the film, screen it, and then have an audience discussion with Brad after the film.

About the Film

Hale Zukas, 73, has had cerebral palsy since birth. He attended the University of California at Berkeley during the height of the Free Speech Movement. Hale is a math major, and fluent in Russian. He was one of the founding members of the Center for Independent Living in Berkeley, the first group of its kind in the world dedicated to advocate for the rights of disabled people. He worked with Ed Roberts and Judy Heumann for many years and was appointed by President Jimmy Carter to serve on the Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board in Washington. Hale was instrumental in shaping the B.A.R.T Accessibility Task Force to assist San Francisco Bay Area transit riders in gaining public access to transit systems.