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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 Struggle to Live a Normal Life

I think really I came to that work out of necessity. There was no like flash of light that said my destiny is to do advocacy work and disability. And I had polio in 1949. My parents, I learned were suggested to them by a doctor that they put me in an institution because their life would be better if I was not a burden on them.

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