How he coped became a powerful symbol of an individual’s persistence in managing with an impairment. He was, in part, defined ...

My mother-in-law was diagnosed in 1923, two years after 39-year-old Franklin D. Roosevelt got polio. The story goes that he may have contracted it at a lakeside Boy Scout jamboree at Bear Mountain.

A retired educator from the Newnan area was a special guest of Bradshaw-Chambers County Library’s summer reader program on ...

In 1921, FDR contracted polio - paralyzing him from the waist down. In the coming years, Roosevelt continually fought to regain the use of his legs.

Answer the following questions as you view the film. View the Introduction to the film, which describes how polio ravaged the small town of Wytheville, VA. As a class, prepare an oral history of ...