The US activist on Covid’s impact and her starring role in Crip Camp, the documentary charting the birth of the disability rights movement
“When people say no, I really have to do something about it,” says US disability rights pioneer, Judith Heumann, who has advised presidents Clinton and Obama.
As a young activist in 1970, Heumann fought New York’s education board to become the first person in a wheelchair to teach in the city’s schools. Her influential campaigns include the 504 sit-in, a month-long occupation of a San Francisco federal building in 1977 that forced through civil rights protections for disabled people. That success paved the way for the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) in 1990.
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