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Disability theatre deep dives    • Disability Theatre Deep Dives  
Disability in Hunchback    • Disability in Disney’s ‘The Hunchback...  
History of Freak Shows    • Freakery, Past & Present [CC]  
Crafting Curious documentary    • Crafting Curious | Full Documentary [CC]  
Narrative Prosthesis: Disability and the Dependencies of Discourse by David T. Mitchell and Sharon L. Snyder
Disability Aesthetics by Tobin Anthony Siebers
Studying Disability Arts and Culture: An Introduction by Petra Kuppers
The Routledge Handbook of Disability Arts, Culture, and Media edited by Bree Hadley
the rise and fall (and rise) of disney's newsies Maxwell Greene    • the rise and fall (and rise) of disne...  
July 18, 1899: Newsboys Strike in New York Zinn Education Project https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/td...
Newsies Production Handbook
Inside the making of 'Newsies,' Disney's biggest liveactionmusical failure that became a cult classic https://www.businessinsider.com/hown...
Newsies—An Oral History: How It All Happened https://www.theatrely.com/post/newsie...
Read All About It: How Newsies Went from Box Office Bust to ‘King of New York’ https://www.broadway.com/buzz/160813/...
Newsboys of 1899: History of a Strike Crutchie https://newsboysof1899.home.blog/ta...
Crutchy/Crutchie Morris Newsies Wiki https://newsies.fandom.com/en/wiki/Cr...
Disabled Actor To Play The Role Of Crutchie In Disney's NEWSIES https://www.broadwayworld.com/newjer...
What People With Disabilities can Learn From Crutchie (and Some Stuff for Fellow Writers, too) https://independencechick.wordpress.c...
AKB on Crutchie Take A Bow Podcast https://www.tiktok.com/@takeabowpodca...
His Name is Literally Crutchie — Pitfalls in Representation https://www.thetheatricalboard.com/ed...
The Press: Pulitzer Eyes https://time.com/archive/6894487/the...
When Polio Triggered Fear and Panic Among Parents in the 1950s https://www.history.com/news/poliofe...
History of Polio https://polioeradication.org/aboutpo...
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How Italians Became ‘White’ https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2...
What Was Yellow Journalism? A History of the Free Press in America https://www.thecollector.com/whatwas...
Why historians are fighting about “No Irish Need Apply” signs — and why it matters https://www.vox.com/2015/3/17/8227175...

Time Codes:
00:00 Intro
02:06 Show History
09:57 Plot Summary
22:28 The 1899 Strike
27:46 The Film
33:15 Newsies Jr.
34:17 West End Newsies
37:52 Disability
1:02:48 Now What?/Conclusion

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