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Korvikt [17]
3 years ago
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Which best describes the history of the special Olympics

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slamgirl [31]3 years ago
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From a backyard summer camp for people with intellectual disabilities to a global movement, Special Olympics has been changing lives and attitudes since 1968. It all began in the 1950s and early 1960s when Eunice Kennedy Shriver saw how unjustly and unfairly people with intellectual disabilities were treated.

BigorU [14]3 years ago
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The genesis of Special Olympics was a summer day camp that Sargent and Eunice Shriver started in the backyard of their Maryland home. In July 1968, the world witnessed the first International Special Olympics Games at Soldier Field in Chicago. In December of that year, the Joseph P.

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