Jennifer Keelan-Chaffins was born with cerebral palsy, and faced barriers her entire life. Even crossing the street in her wheelchair was a challenge. When she started kindergarten, she was only allowed to attend in the afternoon, due to her disability. These sort of experiences led Jennifer and her parents to attend meetings with other people with disabilities and at age six, she began participating in protests for disability rights. When Congress was debating the Americans with Disabilities Act, she joined activists in Washington, D.C., and participated in the Capitol Crawl, in which some of the activists crawled up the steps of the Capitol Building to demonstrate how difficult access was there, and by extension in many places. Jennifer wasn't the only one to make the arduous crawl up the Capitol steps, but because she was just eight years old, her insistence on participating in the climb drew intense attention. This account of her early life provides an excellent introduction to activism, which builds to the dramatic event at the Capitol Building and demonstrates how the Americans with Disabilities Act came about and what it means to us all today. (Ages 6-9)