The Rolling Freedom Express is off to the Supreme Court

ADA today
ADA tomorrow
ADA forever

Bill Pryor the Alabama Attorney General has pushed a new segregation dogma to the U.S. Supreme Court in Alabama v. Garrett. ADAPT, a disability rights group, is sponsoring the Rolling Freedom Express to highlight the need for integration of persons with disabilities in state and local programs, especially providing choice in long-term care services.

Citizens from all over Alabama gathered in the shadow of the 16th Street Baptist Church to send the Rolling Freedom Express on its seven state tour ending at the U.S. Supreme Court. "I was just saying to Milton [Ash] that I had thought we were alone," said Patricia Garrett to the crowd of 250 supports. Patricia Garrett and Milton Ash are the original plaintiffs in Alabama v. Garrett.

"Please know that we here in Birmingham are with you," said Mayor Bernard Kincaid who welcomed the Rolling Freedom Express to the city. "And we wish to send a message with you to Washington: Don't Tread on the ADA."

"The history of the Civil Rights Movement started here in Alabama," said Jimmy Peterson, the President of the Alabama Association of the Deaf. "The state of Alabama is repeating history."

"Passage of the ADA was a struggle and protecting it will be one too," said Patrick Hackney an attorney with the Alabama Disabilities Advocacy Program. "let me be more adamant - it will be a war!"