Q26: OPSC Prelims 2025 GS-II: Previous Year Question

Direction (Q. Nos. 26-28): Read the passage below and answer the questions. Your response should be based on the passage only. Passage The leaders of the disability rights movement adopted many of their policy goals from other movements. Local, State and National statutes prohibiting discrimination on the basis of handicapping conditions frequently borrowed language from laws concerning racial, religious or gender discrimination. Existing anti-discrimination statutes were amended to add disability as a category. The first major attempt to protect disabled people from bias occurred in 1972 when Representative Charles Vanik and Senator Hubert Humphrey proposed to amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to include handicapping conditions. Their bills were defeated in the committee, partly because of opposition from supporters of black civil rights, who feared that attention and resources would be diverted from their cause. According to the passage, what was the primary method used to create early legal protections for people with disabilities?