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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 American Coalition of Citizens With Disabilities

When President Ford left, he had not signed the regulations. A final set of regs had come out, but he refused to sign them. When Carter was elected, and Secretary Joseph Califano was appointed, he didn't know what the regulations were. And so, an organization had been created in 1975 called the American Coalition of Citizens with Disabilities. In about February of 1977, we made a decision.

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