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Being Heumann : an unrepentant memoir of a disability rights activist / Judith Heumann, with Kristen Joiner.
"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. 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."-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780807019290
- ISBN: 0807019291
- Physical Description: xiv, 218 pages ; 23 cm
- Publisher: Boston, Massachusetts : Beacon Press, [2019]
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| General Note: | Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Heumann co-founded the World Institute on Disability with Ed Roberts and Joan Leon in 1983, serving as co-director until 1993. Assistant Secretary of the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitation Services at the US Department of Education. served as the World Bank Group's first Advisor on Disability and Development. Director of the Department of Disability Services for the District of Columbia. Special Advisor on Disability Rights for the US State Department. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Part one: Brooklyn, New York, 1953 -- The Butterfly -- Insubordinate -- To Fight or Not to Fight -- Fear of Flying -- Part two: Berkeley, California, 1977 -- Detained -- Occupation Army -- Soldiers in Combat -- The White House -- Part three: Berkeley, California, 1981 -- The Reckoning -- Chingona -- Humans -- Our Story. |
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| Subject: | Heumann, Judith E. Human rights workers > United States > Biography. People with disabilities > United States > Biography. Teachers > United States > Biography. |
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| Alexander Hamilton Memorial Free Library | B HEU (Text) | 37268003093143 | AHMFL Biography | Available | - |
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