Judy Heumann, a renowned activist who helped secure legislation protecting the rights of disabled people, has died at age 75.
The news of her passing on Saturday in Washington, D.C., was posted on her website and social media accounts and confirmed by the American Association of People with Disabilities. A cause of death was not immediately revealed.
Heumann also was involved in passage of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, which was ratified in May 2008. Her book recounts the struggle her parents experienced while trying to secure a place for their daughter in school."Kids with disabilities were considered a hardship, economically and socially," she wrote.
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