Max Starkloff

Max Starkloff (b. 1937, in St. Louis, Missouri - December, 2010) was a disability rights activist. Starkloff became disabled in a car accident in 1959 and subsequently co-founded three organizations^[1]:

• Paraquad, an independent living center, in 1970, then one of the first ten such federally-funded centers;^[2]
• the National Council on Independent Living, in 1983; and
• the Starkloff Disability Institute, co-founded with Colleen, his wife, in 2003.

Starkloff lobbied for legislation for curb cuts and disabled parking, as well as the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. He won a President’s Distinguished Service Award in 1991, and was awarded a star on the St. Louis Walk of Fame. ^[1]

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Entry text from star on St. Louis Walk of Fame.
2. ^ Starkloff.org

External links

• Starkloff's entry on the St. Louis Walk of Fame

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