Max Starkloff was a disability rights activist. Starkloff became disabled in a car accident in 1959 and subsequently co-founded three organizations:

• Paraquad, an independent living center, in 1970, then one of the first ten such federally-funded centers;
• 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

Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990

The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 is a law that was enacted by the U.S. Congress in 1990. It was signed into law on July 26, 1990, by President George H. W. Bush, and later amended with changes effective January 1, 2009....

. He won a President’s Distinguished Service Award in 1991, and was awarded a star on the St. Louis Walk of Fame.

External links

• Starkloff's entry on the St. Louis Walk of Fame
  St. Louis Walk of Fame
  The St. Louis Walk of Fame honors well-known people from St. Louis, Missouri, who made contributions to culture of the United States. All inductees were either born in the Greater St. Louis area or spent their formative or creative years there...