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• Michigan Commission on Disability Concerns History
In 1947, Congress passed a resolution promoting the employment of people with disabilities. This first national observance for persons with disabilities was developed in response to veterans returning home from World War II who had sustained war injuries that proved to be barriers to their employment. President Harry S Truman took this initiative one step further and established, by Executive Order, the first President's Committee on Employment of the Handicapped.

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• Division on Deaf and Hard of Hearing History
In 1887 the Michigan Association of the Deaf (MAD) was founded and in 1921 MAD began it's first effort to establish the Division of Deaf and Deafened (DDD).

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