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Childhood and family in New York; onset of polio; use of civil rights model in disability activism; establishment of the Disabled Students Program at Long Island University, 1968-69; denial of teacher certification and lawsuit; teaching at Public School 219; formation of Disabled in Action, 1970; Willowbrook State School for the Mentally Retarded; disrupting Julie Nixon Eisenhower's sppech, 1973; interactions with the Center for Independent Living; aide to Senator Harrison Williams, 1974-1975; suing National Airlines, 1974; deputy director of Center for Independent Living; 1975-82; White House Conference on Handicapped Individuals, 1977; reflections on Center for Independent Living staff; establishing the World Institute on Disability, 1983; Assistant Secretary to the Department of Education, 1993-2001.

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Judith Heumann, Pioneering disability rights advocate and leader in Disabled in Action, New York; Center for Independent Living, Berkeley; World Institute on Disability; and the US Department of Education, 1960s-2000; interviews conducted by Susan Brown, David Landes, and Jonathan Young in 1998-2001
Creator
interviewee., Heumann, Judith E., 1947-
interviewer., Brown, Susan T.,
interviewer., Landes, David L. 1941-2008, (David Lamont),
interviewer., Young, Jonathan,
issuing body., Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office,
Published
Berkeley, California, Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, 1998-2001.
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Subject (Person)
Heumann, Judith E., 1947- Interviews.
Subject (Corporate)
Disabled in Action.
Center for Independent Living.
World Institute on Disability.
Subject (Topic)
Women with disabilities United States -- Interviews.
Poliomyelitis Patients -- Interviews.
People with disabilities Services for -- United States.
People with disabilities Civil rights -- United States.
People with disabilities Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States.
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Format
Oral histories.
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The Library
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