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Sarah Kanowski: When Judith Heumann was a toddler, she caught polio. Judy was one of the nearly 43,000 American children affected by the 1949 epidemic. Polio left Judy paralysed. She was unable to walk and with only limited use of her…

Apple has acquired the rights to “Being Heumann,” a memoir about the life of disability rights activist Judith Heumann. And the studio commissioned “CODA” director Siân Heder to write and direct the film. Ali Stroker will play…

WASHINGTON, DC, June 11, 2021 / 24-7PressRelease / - SEC Commissioner Allison Lee, disability rights attorney Judy Heumann, and Mehrsa Baradaran, a leading expert on the racial prosperity gap, will be among the speakers at the US SIF…

Judy Heumann is one of the nation's leading voices on disabled access issues. As a lifelong advocate of disability rights, Judy played a central role in leading and advocating organizations and in the Implementation of…

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When Judy Heumann - one of the main subjects of the Oscar-nominated documentary Crip Camp - was five years old in the early 1950s, her mother tried to enroll her for kindergarten in New York City. The staff took one look at Judy, who…

"Discrimination dies with great difficulty." This is the lesson Judy Heumann hopes students will take away from her recent book Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memory of a Disability Rights…

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In 1970 Judith "Judy" Heumann became the first woman in a wheelchair to teach a public school in New York City. Seven years later, she led a 28-day sit-in that led to the signing of Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act - the first…

UNIVERSITY PARK, PA. - Judy Heumann contracted polio at the age of 18 months. At the age of five, she was denied schooling because she could not walk and was told she was a fire hazard. She did not accept that vision for her future, nor…