Lois Curtis was a lifelong Georgia resident, an artist and a plaintiff in one of the most consequential disability rights cases decided by the Supreme Court of the United States, Olmstead v. L.C. The ...

Lois Curtis, an artist with an intellectual disability who brought a landmark civil rights lawsuit that gave people with disabilities the right to... Lois Curtis, who won a landmark civil rights case ...

CLARKSTON, Ga. — The woman known as the "godmother of the disability rights movement in Georgia" and one of the plaintiffs in a landmark civil rights Supreme Court case has died. Georgia Council of ...

As a young woman, Lois Curtis was imprisoned. Curtis was not a criminal. She hadn’t even been accused of a crime. The only thing Curtis had done was be born with a disability in a society that did not ...

Confined to psychiatric hospitals and institutions against her wishes, Lois Curtis would regularly call for help, dialing the number of a sympathetic lawyer who handed out her business card to social ...

Since she was a child, Lois Curtis was involuntarily moved from one mental institution to another. She had grown up with cognitive and developmental disabilities that had made it difficult for her ...

For the next installment in our “Hidden Histories” series, Ali Rogin brings us the story of Lois Curtis, an artist whose lawsuit 25 years ago over the conditions of her confinement in state ...

Attorney Sue Jamieson was touring a grim state hospital in Georgia three decades ago when she was introduced to a young woman, Lois Curtis, who'd spent much of her teen years and early 20s in state ...