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Remembering Judith Heumann and the Extraordinary History of the Disability Rights Movement

Factually! with Adam Conover

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The Importance of Section 504 and the Americans With Disabilities Act

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.

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