Several organizations that help Little People interact and get involved, such as the Little People of America.
The Little People of America is an organization of people with all kinds of short-stature syndromes, family members and caregivers, dedicated to improving the quality of life of affected persons, and improving their integration into society.
The show drew up much controversy and was met with protest from the Little People of America for the Brawlers' repetitive use of the word midget.
The statement was made in direct response to an episode of Celebrity Apprentice which featured a multiple uses of the word "midget" and a justification of it by one of the celebrities, Jesse James.
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LPA is the first North American 'little people' organization, with the Little People of Canada (LPC) incorporating in Canada in 1984.
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LPA was informally started in 1957 when Billy Barty called upon people of short stature to join him in a get-together in Reno, Nevada.
Similarly, Matt Roloff, then-president of the advocacy group Little People of America, commented on the potential for The Littlest Groom to provide a positive media representation of little people as individuals “just being themselves”: “hiding us behind closed doors or in funny costumes”, he observed, “will never give us the exposure needed to desensitize society to us”.
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In The Little People of America (1971), Krims received permission to photograph people belonging to a national organization founded by the actor Billy Barty, called "The Little People of America. " Many of the pictures were made at national conventions of the L.P.A, in Oakland, CA, and Atlanta, GA.