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Heumann, Judith.
Being Heumann
[Libby] :
An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist.
Beacon Press,
2020.
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HTML:<b>A <i>Publishers Weekly</i> Best Book of the Year for Nonfiction</b><br /> "<i>...</i>an essential and engaging look at recent disability history."— <i>Buzzfeed</i><br /> <b>One of the most influential disability rights activists in US history tells her personal story of fighting for the right to receive an education, have a job, and just be human.</b><br /> A story of fighting to belong in a world that wasn’t built for all of us and of one woman’s activism—from the streets of Brooklyn and San Francisco to inside the halls of Washington—<i>Being Heumann</i> recounts Judy Heumann’s lifelong battle to achieve respect, acceptance, and inclusion in society.<br /> Paralyzed from polio at eighteen months, Judy’s struggle for equality began early in life. From fighting to attend grade school after being described as a “fire hazard” to later winning a lawsuit against the New York City school system for denying her a teacher’s license because of her paralysis, Judy’s actions set a precedent that fundamentally improved rights for disabled people.<br /> As a young woman, Judy rolled her wheelchair through the doors of the US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare in San Francisco as a leader of the Section 504 Sit-In, the longest takeover of a governmental building in US history. Working with a community of over 150 disabled activists and allies, Judy successfully pressured the Carter administration to implement protections for disabled peoples’ rights, sparking a national movement and leading to the creation of the Americans with Disabilities Act.<br /> Candid, intimate, and irreverent, Judy Heumann’s memoir about resistance to exclusion invites readers to imagine and make real a world in which we all belong.
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