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Fred Pelka

THE LT. GOVERNOR OF TEXAS SUGGESTS SOME OF US MIGHT HAVE TO DIE IN ORDER TO SAVE OUR ECONOMY by Fred Pelka

Posted on September 14, 2020June 9, 2021

Fred Pelka is the author of What We Have Done: An Oral History of the Disability Rights Movement and other books on the history of disability and disability rights.  His first book of poetry, A Different Blaze, was published by Hedgerow Books in 2014.  He was a 2004 Guggenheim Fellow. THE LT. GOVERNOR OF TEXAS Read More

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