Judy Heumann is regarded as the mother of the disability rights movement. She passed away over the weekend at the age of 75.
, U.S. disability rights program officer with the Ford Foundation, knew Heumann personally. Cokley regales Heumann's life of advocacy and service to the disabled community and the importance of young people continuing the work she started.
Cokley: I think Judy's story of exclusion and segregation really starts with her origin. I mean, as a young child with polio, she was denied the right to go to kindergarten with her peers because her teachers believed that her wheelchair would be a fire hazard. Fernandes: And just to be clear, not only was she denied the right originally to attend kindergarten as a five-year-old herself, later, when she wanted to be a kindergarten teacher in college, she was also given a similar reason for not being able to go to college, right?
Cokley: This was something that was very important to Judy. And, I mean, given her activism in California, where she helped start the State Youth Leadership Forum for Young Leaders with Disabilities, and then moving to Washington was actually the last thing that she did in the Clinton administration, was fund a national leadership program for young people with disabilities.
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