Instead, she was speaking at a virtual event she had begun organizing just three days ago—one of three online Hands Off ...

Public schools could, and often did, force students with disabilities into separate classes regardless of their abilities.

There wasn’t an open patch of grass in Elmwood Park as organizers estimated hundreds, maybe even a thousand people from ...

Photo by Tom Olin. Enter ADAPT—American Disabled for Accessible Public Transit—a grassroots disability rights organization that had been staging protests across the country even before its ...

He witnessed firsthand the origins of the movement, as his mother and father played integral roles in advancing disability rights ... He said it precipitated a protest against a 1967 ban on ...

Judy Heumann, who has been called the “mother of the disability rights movement, has died at 75. Heumann, who lost her ability to walk at age 2 after contracting polio, lobbied for legislation ...

the disability rights movement, people from the private sector, researchers and the United Nations – to work together to change the narrative on disability, and to make human rights-based development ...

The public fight propelled Heumann into the leadership of an inchoate disability rights movement. Two years later, she participated in New York City protests in favor of federal anti ...