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The more successful sit-in occurred in San Francisco, planned by Judith Heumann, Kitty Cone, and Mary Jane Owen, lasted until May 4, 1977, a total of 25 days, with more than 150 people refusing to leave. It is the longest sit-in at a federal building to date. [8] Close to 120 disability activists and protesters occupied the HEW building.
Judith Ellen "Judy" Heumann (/ ... 1977, including the beginning of the 504 Sit-in at the San Francisco office of the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare.
Led by Judith E. Heumann, eighty activists staged this sit-in on Madison Avenue, stopping traffic. [23] In 1972, demonstrations were also held by disabled activists in Washington, D.C. to protest this veto; among the demonstrators were Disabled in Action, Paralyzed Veterans of America , the National Paraplegia Foundation , and others.
She fought for historic legislation such as the Americans with Disabilities Act and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act. Judith Heumann, ‘Mother of the Disability Rights Movement,’ Has Died ...
Archived from the original on 8 February 1999. Camp Jened was a summer camp for disabled people in the state of New York that became a springboard for the disability rights movement and independent living movement in the United States. [1] [2] Many campers and counselors (known as "Jenedians") [2] became disability rights activists, such as ...
Heumann required the use of a wheelchair from an early age due to polio. In 1970, she was denied a teaching license in New York City, with city… Judith Heumann, ‘mother’ of disability rights ...
The protesters demanded the signing of regulations for Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.The successful sit-in was led by Judith Heumann. [42] The first day of protests marked the first of a 25-day sit-in. Close to 120 disability activists and protesters occupied the HEW building, and Secretary Joseph Califano finally signed on ...
She was at the San Francisco sit-in to support Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act in April 1977, as a personal assistant to Judy Heumann. In 1979 she cofounded the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund (DREDF) with Mary Lou Breslin and Robert Funk. From 1979 until 2005 she worked as Director of Government Affairs for DREDF.