Judy Heumann, celebrated disability rights activist whose lifelong advocacy eventually led to passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act, has died. She was 75. Heumann worked under the Clinton and ...

Judith Heumann was a disability rights activist and a leader of the disability community. In 1977, she helped to revive legislation that set the groundwork for the Americans with Disabilities Act. Let ...

Judy Heumann was the first person I called when, in 1987, I reported my first story on disability rights. Judy, who contracted polio when she was 18 months old, gave me the quote that perfectly summed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Judith Heumann, a disability rights pioneer and “internationally recognized badass,” as her podcast tagline put it, left a big ...

(JTA) — In Judith Heumann’s 2020 memoir, the lifelong advocate for people with disabilities describes feeling shocked upon being invited to read from the Torah at her synagogue in Berkeley, California ...