Indiana Disability History

Title

Darcus Nims - "Just Like Anybody Else"

Subject

Advocacy

Self-Advocacy

Self-Advocates of Indiana (SAI)

Description

In 1991, Darcus Nims traveled to Washington D.C. to receive the national Victorian Award for Achievement from President George H. Bush, for overcoming overwhelming challenges in her life. She had lunch at the White House and it was "the first time I ever got to stay in a hotel, the first time I ever got to go to a fancy restaurant." Some years later she had another first, flying to D.C. for a conference with self-advocate Betty Williams. “This time, we didn't have no helpers. We didn't think we could do it ourselves and we thought -- we were shocked we did it.” Darcus founded Self-Advocates of Indiana, the statewide group of advocates with intellectual/developmental disabilities, in 1990. She was interviewed in 2006.

Creator

Indiana Disability History Project

Contributor

Darcus Nims - Interviewee

Jennie Todd - Interviewer

Peggy Holtz - Videographer/editor

Rights

Relation

031-mi

031-do

031-mi-01

050-si

133-mi-01

Format

video/mp4

Language

English

Type

Moving Image

Identifier

031-mi-02

Access Rights

Open to all users

Is Part Of

031-mi

Bibliographic Citation

"Darcus Nims - Just Like Anybody Else" YouTube video, 00:02:52, interview excerpt 031-mi-02 by the Indiana Disability History Project, posted by "Indiana Disability History" on November 28, 2018, https://youtu.be/FSUzrZDXpm8

Spatial Coverage

Indiana

Temporal Coverage

1990 - 2006