When did the concept of compassion for the handicapped become commonly accepted in the USA?
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A key moment was the passage of the Americans With Disabiities Act of 1990.
This followed a trend of "compassion" that was the hallmark of the so-called Silent Generation, born 1925-1942 (according to Strauss and Howe. This generation produced noted civil rights leaders like Martin Luther King (1929) and Senators Bobby (1925) and Ted Kennedy (1932). It was a prosperous generation that was taught to "share" as children, and looked around to see "minorities" not sharing in the general prosperity.More than some other generations, they did their best to rectify these inequalities. Put another way, they gave more because they had more to give.
Among other things, they had been taught to discriminate against other groups as children, but were much more careful (as a group) about passing on these prejudices to their own children, which is why these prejudices started to "die out."
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