Judy Heumann, the 'mother of the disability rights movement' who advocated through protest and legal action, has died. She was 75.
Judy Heumann, a renowned and deeply respected activist who helped secure legislation protecting the rights of disabled people, has died at 75.and social media accounts and confirmed by her youngest brother, Rick Heumann.
"It wasn’t about glory for my sister or anything like that at all. It was always about how could she make things better for other people," he said, adding that the family drew solace from the tributes that poured in on Twitter from dignitaries and past presidents such as Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.
Heumann also was involved in passage of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons With Disabilities, which was ratified in May 2008. “Today the expectation for children with disabilities is that we will be included in mainstream education, that we will have a chance to go to high school, to go to college and to get those degrees,” Town said while acknowledging that inequities persist. “But I think the fact that the primary assumption has changed is a really big deal, and I also think Judy played a significant role.”which highlighted Camp Jened, a summer camp Heumann attended that helped spark the disability rights movement.
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