In 1987, Let's Get Together Inc. (LGT) was incorporated. For almost 10 years LGT was the fiscal sponsor for ADAPT of Atlanta, Concrete Change, Life Worthy of Life (a predecessor to Not Dead Yet) and the first consumer controlled Independent Living Center (ILCs) in Georgia. Today LGT no longer exist, however ADAPT, Concrete Change, the Metro Atlanta ILC and other LGT initiatives do.
lgtinc.org is dedicated to the pioneers of the disability rights movement, memories of Eleanor Smith's front porch, Elaine Kolb's music and the Information Age. It was created to promote the movement and the people and groups that are making a difference. Hopefully the awareness and connections it creates will stir more action. It's being administered by Mark Johnson, New Mobility's 2001 Person of the Year.
Following are the words to the song Let's Get Together, written by Elaine in 1981.
Let's Get Together
CHORUS
So let's get together and work it out, you never know until you try.
So let's get together and work it out, we can help each other get by.
1. We're tired of being shoved to the back of the shelf, forgotten and ignored,
We're tired of just sitting and watching TV, seeing things we could never afford.
And we know all around there are millions like us, scattered throughout our land.
Through too many years and too many tears we've needed each other's hand.
CHORUS
2. Some can't walk and some can't talk, and some can't hear or see.
Whatever the problems some of us have, a big one is society,
'Cause it teaches you to concentrate on what is lost
And not on what we still can do.
When they tangle you up in lots of red tape
You could use some help to cut your way through.
3. Now every day more children are born who need special help in school.
Too many don't get it and suffer neglect.
For life then they are branded a fool.
No matter how young or old we are most of us still can learn
And if you've been lucky all of your life
You never know it may be your turn.
CHORUS
Copyright Elaine Kolb 1981
Written by Chet PowersCopyright © 1963, Renewed 1991 Irving Music, Inc. (BMI)
Performed by the Youngbloods
