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In 'Crip Camp,' a rare spotlight for disability rights
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PARK CITY, Utah – It wasn't Judith Heumann's first standing ovation, but it might have been her loudest. Heumann, who had polio as a baby and uses a wheelchair, has for decades been one of the leading figures of the disability rights movement.
When the Brooklyn native, after graduating from college, was denied a teaching license by New York City's board of education because her wheelchair was declared a fire hazard, she sued and won.
In 1977, when the first federal civil rights legislation for disabled people stalled, she led a historic 28-day-long sit-in.
The victory paved the way for 1990's Americans With Disabilities Act. Her story is one of several central to “Crip Camp: A Disability Revolutionary," a rousing and rare look at the
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