| Title : | Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist | | Material Type: | printed text | | Authors: | Judith Heumann, Author ; Kristen Joiner, Author | | Publisher: | Beacon Press | | ISBN (or other code): | 978-0-8070-1929-0 | | Languages : | English (eng) | | Descriptors: | Activism and Community Organizing
Biography
Biography and personal stories
Disability/Ableism & Accessibility
Human Rights
Social Movements
| | Abstract: | Paralyzed from polio at eighteen months, Judith Heumann began her struggle for equality 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 has set precedents that fundamentally improved rights for disabled people.
A young woman, Judy rolled her wheelchair through the doors of the US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare in San Fransisco as a leader of the Section 504 sit-in, the longest takeover of a government building in US history. Working with a community of over 150 disabled activists and allies, Judy helped to successfully pressure the Carter administration to implement protections for disabled people's rights, sparking a national movement and leading to the creation of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Candid, intimate, and irreverent, Being Heumann is a story of one woman's lifelong battle - from streets of Brooklyn and San Francisco to inside the halls of Washington - to make real a world in which we all belong. |
Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist [printed text] / Judith Heumann, Author ; Kristen Joiner, Author . - [S.l.] : Beacon Press, [s.d.]. ISBN : 978-0-8070-1929-0 Languages : English ( eng) | Descriptors: | Activism and Community Organizing
Biography
Biography and personal stories
Disability/Ableism & Accessibility
Human Rights
Social Movements
| | Abstract: | Paralyzed from polio at eighteen months, Judith Heumann began her struggle for equality 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 has set precedents that fundamentally improved rights for disabled people.
A young woman, Judy rolled her wheelchair through the doors of the US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare in San Fransisco as a leader of the Section 504 sit-in, the longest takeover of a government building in US history. Working with a community of over 150 disabled activists and allies, Judy helped to successfully pressure the Carter administration to implement protections for disabled people's rights, sparking a national movement and leading to the creation of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Candid, intimate, and irreverent, Being Heumann is a story of one woman's lifelong battle - from streets of Brooklyn and San Francisco to inside the halls of Washington - to make real a world in which we all belong. |
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