Polio survivor cycles to promote disabled rights
from The Daily Texan
By Joey Castillo
When Mikail Davenport was diagnosed with polio in 1950, doctors told his parents they should institutionalize him, and that he would end up like a vegetable. Now 58 years old, Davenport spent the month of March bicycling from El Paso to Beaumont Â- all without the use of his legs.