It took another 13 years to get the Americans with Disabilities Act passed. The ADA really benefited from the amount of work that had been done in developing the 504 regulation, he says. But one of the obvious problems was that while section 504 wasn't as very important, it also, as I was saying, did not cover the public sector.
In honor of the passing of the Judith Heumann, we’re re-airing Adam’s 2019 interview with the trailblazing disability rights activist and hero, Judith Heumann. Pick up a copy of Judith’s memoir, Being Heumann, at http://factuallypod.com/books
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