Being Heumann - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Being Heumann write by Judith Heumann. This book was released on 2020-02-25. Being Heumann available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year for Nonfiction "...an essential and engaging look at recent disability history."— Buzzfeed One of the most influential disability rights activists in US history tells her personal story of fighting for the right to receive an education, have a job, and just be human. A story of fighting to belong in a world that wasn’t built for all of us and of one woman’s activism—from the streets of Brooklyn and San Francisco to inside the halls of Washington—Being Heumann recounts Judy Heumann’s lifelong battle to achieve respect, acceptance, and inclusion in society. Paralyzed from polio at eighteen months, Judy’s struggle for equality began early in life. From fighting to attend grade school after being described as a “fire hazard” to later winning a lawsuit against the New York City school system for denying her a teacher’s license because of her paralysis, Judy’s actions set a precedent that fundamentally improved rights for disabled people. As a young woman, Judy rolled her wheelchair through the doors of the US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare in San Francisco as a leader of the Section 504 Sit-In, the longest takeover of a governmental building in US history. Working with a community of over 150 disabled activists and allies, Judy successfully pressured the Carter administration to implement protections for disabled peoples’ rights, sparking a national movement and leading to the creation of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Candid, intimate, and irreverent, Judy Heumann’s memoir about resistance to exclusion invites readers to imagine and make real a world in which we all belong.
Pennhurst and the Struggle for Disability Rights
Pennhurst and the Struggle for Disability Rights - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pennhurst and the Struggle for Disability Rights write by Dennis B. Downey. This book was released on 2020-04-13. Pennhurst and the Struggle for Disability Rights available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Conceived in the era of eugenics as a solution to what was termed the “problem of the feeble-minded,” state-operated institutions subjected people with intellectual and developmental disabilities to a life of compulsory incarceration. One of nearly 300 such facilities in the United States, Pennhurst State School and Hospital was initially hailed as a “model institution” but was later revealed to be a nightmare, where medical experimentation and physical and psychological abuse were rampant. At its peak, more than 3,500 residents were confined at Pennhurst, supervised by a staff of fewer than 600. Using a blended narrative of essays and first-person accounts, this history of Pennhurst examines the institution from its founding during an age of Progressive reform to its present-day exploitation as a controversial Halloween attraction. In doing so, it traces a decades-long battle to reform the abhorrent school and hospital and reveals its role as a catalyst for the disability rights movement. Beginning in the 1950s, parent-advocates, social workers, and attorneys joined forces to challenge the dehumanizing conditions at Pennhurst. Their groundbreaking advocacy, accelerated in 1968 by the explosive televised exposé Suffer the Little Children, laid the foundation for lawsuits that transformed American jurisprudence and ended mass institutionalization in the United States. As a result, Pennhurst became a symbolic force in the disability civil rights movement in America and around the world. Extensively researched and featuring the stories of survivors, parents, and advocates, this compelling history will appeal both to those with connections to Pennhurst and to anyone interested in the history of institutionalization and the disability rights movement.
What We Have Done
What We Have Done - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook What We Have Done write by Fred Pelka. This book was released on 2012. What We Have Done available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Compelling first-person accounts of the struggle to secure equal rights for Americans with disabilities
The Disability Rights Movement
The Disability Rights Movement - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Disability Rights Movement write by Doris Fleischer. This book was released on 2012. The Disability Rights Movement available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The struggle for disability rights in the U.S.
Human Rights and Disabled Persons
Human Rights and Disabled Persons - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Human Rights and Disabled Persons write by Theresia Degener. This book was released on 2021-10-18. Human Rights and Disabled Persons available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The United Nations' Decade of Disabled Persons has served as a time for standard setting in the field of human rights and disability, and has created the need to evaluate the relevant human rights instruments for disabled persons. This volume responds to this need by offering a collection of essays on the subject of human rights and disability, and an extensive compilation of international and regional human rights instruments, guidelines and principles which are of special relevance to disabled people. It should serve organizations of disabled people as well as governments throughout the world as a resource and as an introduction to human rights and disability. This shortcoming may be one reason for the widely prevailing notion that disability is a welfare issue rather than a human rights issue.
