Description: Former advisor to Presidents Clinton and Obama, star of the Oscar-nominated Crip Camp and one of the planet's most influential disability rights activists, tells her personal story of fighting for the right to receive an education, have a job, and just be human. 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--Being Heumann recounts Judy Heumann's lifelong battle to achieve respect, acceptance, and inclusion in society. Paralyzed from polio at eighteen months, Judy 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, to leading the section 504 sit-in that led to the creation of the Americans with Disabilities Act, Judy's actions set a precedent that fundamentally improved rights for disabled people around the globe. 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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EAN: 9780753559291
UPC: 9780753559291
ISBN: 9780753559291
MPN: N/A
Item Length: 19.8 cm
Number of Pages: 240 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Being Heumann: the Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
Publication Year: 2021
Subject: Disability, Politics
Item Height: 198 mm
Item Weight: 166 g
Type: Textbook
Author: Kristen Joiner, Judith Heumann
Subject Area: Civil Service
Item Width: 126 mm
Format: Paperback
