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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 Education in the Age of Disability

When she was in high school, Judy decided that she wanted to be a teacher. Her friends told her they wouldn't support her if she went through with it. She took education classes as a minor and passed all three tests for the teaching license. "I don't know anybody else who is a teacher who got their license using a wheelchair," she says.

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