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Heumann, Who Led the Fight for Disability Rights, Dies at 75</span></i></b></p>

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teacher and went on to help bring about a revolution in the government’s
treatment of the disabled.</span></p><img src="cid:ii_lexdl4vx0" alt="image.png" width="369" height="488"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in;text-align:center;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><img width="236" height="312" alt="Judy Heumann, in glasses, at a news conference with Ed Roberts, an official from California."></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia,serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">Judy Heumann in 1982, with Ed
Roberts, director of the California State Department of Rehabilitation. They
called attention to the Reagan administration’s cutbacks in funds for programs
for the disabled.<span style="letter-spacing:0.1pt">Credit...John
Duricka/Associated Press</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>

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Traub</span></a></span></b><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif"></span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">Published March 5, 2023Updated March
6, 2023, 3:56 p.m. ET</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia,serif">Judy Heumann, who spent decades
attacking a political establishment indifferent to the rights of disabled
people and won one fight after another, ultimately joining and reforming the
very establishment she once inveighed against, died on Saturday in Washington,
D.C. She was 75.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia,serif">An <a href="https://judithheumann.com/the-world-mourns-the-passing-of-judy-heumann-disability-rights-activist/" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">announcement</span></a> on
her personal website did not specify the cause.<span style="border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in"> </span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia,serif"><a href="https://www.thecut.com/2020/09/how-i-get-it-done-disability-rights-activist-judy-heumann.html" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">A quadriplegic</span></a> since
childhood, Ms. Heumann (pronounced human) began her career in activism waging a
one-woman battle to be allowed to work as a teacher in New York City when
discrimination against disabled people was not widely understood as a problem.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia,serif">She went on to become an official in
the Clinton administration, a special adviser in the Obama State Department and
a fellow or board member at some of the nation’s leading nonprofits. She was
also featured in the Oscar-nominated 2020 documentary “Crip Camp.”</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia,serif">Over time, she saw a
revolution occur in the government’s involvement in the lives of disabled
people such as herself. And she, as much as anyone else, helped bring about
that revolution.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia,serif">A pivotal moment came in San Francisco
in 1977.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia,serif">It had been four years since President
Richard Nixon had signed the Rehabilitation Act, one section of which, 504, was
supposed to outlaw discrimination against disabled people by any institution
receiving federal money.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia,serif">“It was a very important provision
because it would mean, for example, that you could not discriminate against
someone with a disability in preschool, in elementary school, in high school,
at universities, in hospitals, in government,” Ms. Heumann <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-54794408" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">told</span></a> the BBC in 2020. “And if in fact
discrimination occurred, you would have a remedy. You could go to court. You
could file a complaint.”</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia,serif">Yet officials repeatedly delayed
implementing the measure, and Joseph A. Califano Jr., the secretary of health,
education and welfare under President Jimmy Carter, said he had wanted to
overhaul the regulations before authorizing them.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia,serif">Activists responded
that there would be national protests if Mr. Califano did not sign off on the
original form of the law by April 4.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/05/science/sunflower-sea-stars-urchins.html?action=click&algo=identity&block=editors_picks_recirc&fellback=false&imp_id=696757958&impression_id=63921100-bc61-11ed-b2fc-d388e1ec5e40&index=0&pgtype=Article&pool=editors-picks-ls&region=ccolumn&req_id=141919570&surface=home-featured&variant=0_identity&action=click&module=editorContent&pgtype=Article&region=CompanionColumn&contentCollection=Trending"><span style="color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;text-decoration-line:none"></span></a></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/06/style/dating-men-with-podcasts.html?action=click&algo=identity&block=editors_picks_recirc&fellback=false&imp_id=651286700&impression_id=63921101-bc61-11ed-b2fc-d388e1ec5e40&index=1&pgtype=Article&pool=editors-picks-ls&region=ccolumn&req_id=141919570&surface=home-featured&variant=0_identity&action=click&module=editorContent&pgtype=Article&region=CompanionColumn&contentCollection=Trending"><span style="color:black;text-decoration-line:none"></span></a></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/06/travel/taliesin-frank-lloyd-wright-wisconsin-baking-class.html?action=click&algo=identity&block=editors_picks_recirc&fellback=false&imp_id=603279130&impression_id=63921102-bc61-11ed-b2fc-d388e1ec5e40&index=2&pgtype=Article&pool=editors-picks-ls&region=ccolumn&req_id=141919570&surface=home-featured&variant=0_identity&action=click&module=editorContent&pgtype=Article&region=CompanionColumn&contentCollection=Trending"><span style="color:black;text-decoration-line:none"></span></a></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><img border="0" width="578" height="385" alt="Ms. Heumann, center, with Ed Roberts, left, and Joan Leon, the founders of the World Institute on Disability in an undated photo."></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia,serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">Ms. Heumann, center, with Ed
Roberts, left, and Joan Leon, the founders of the World Institute on Disability
in an undated photo.<span style="letter-spacing:0.1pt">Credit...The Heumann
Perspective</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia,serif">April 5 arrived.
Protesters in cities throughout the nation occupied federal offices. Ms.
Heumann, then 29, organized the San Francisco contingent. She appeared with
more than 100 other people of varying disabilities to demand action from Joseph
Maldonado, the regional director who reported to Mr. Califano from San
Francisco.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia,serif"><br></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia,serif">“No one had briefed him; he didn’t know
what 504 was,” Ms. Heumann <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/22/us/504-sit-in-disability-rights.html"><span style="color:blue;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">told</span></a> The New York Times in 2020. “We were
incredulous about the fact that nobody was taking what we were doing
seriously.”</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia,serif">The other protest actions soon ended.
But the San Francisco sit-in continued for almost a month. It has often been
described as the longest nonviolent occupation of a federal building in
American history.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia,serif">Many of the protesters did not bring
necessary supplies, or even a change of clothes. The government cut the
building’s water and phone connections.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia,serif">Fortunately, deaf protesters knew
another way to communicate: sign language. That is how they passed messages out
of the building. Other protesters knew a diverting form of amusement:
wheelchair races.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia,serif">The sit-in received support from San
Francisco’s mayor, George Moscone, who sent over mattresses, and from the Black
Panther Party, which <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/08/obituaries/brad-lomax-overlooked.html"><span style="color:blue;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">delivered</span></a> ribs and fried chicken.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia,serif">Ms. Heumann later
traveled to Washington and participated in a special congressional hearing. “We
will no longer allow the government to oppress disabled individuals,” Ms.
Heumann <a href="https://youtu.be/52XqupjXHIM" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">said</span></a>. “We want the law enforced. We want no more
segregation.”</span></p>

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