A Memorial for Justin Dart
July 29, 2002 -- Washington is home of the historic New York Avenue Presbyterian Church. Abraham Lincoln worshipped there. During the height of the civil rights struggle, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. preached from the pulpit there. During World War II, the legendary Peter Marshall preached many famous sermons there. And on the afternoon of July 26, the twelfth anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, Justin Dart Jr. was remembered there. Dart, who used a wheelchair as a result of polio contracted as a teenager, had died of respiratory failure on June 22. Earlier in the day, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued a resolution, signed by all commissioners, commending Mr. Dart for his work on behalf of the disabled. The resolution was accepted on behalf of the Dart family by Lex Frieden, President Bush's nominee to Chair the National Council on Disability.