Being Heumann : an unrepentant memoir of a disability rights activist / Judith Heumann with Kristen Joiner.
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TextPublisher: Boston : Beacon Press, [2020]Description: xiv, 218 pages ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780807002803Subject(s): Heumann, Judith E | Human rights workers -- United States -- Biography | People with disabilities -- United States -- Biography | Teachers -- United States -- BiographyGenre/Form: Biographies. Additional physical formats: Online version:: Being Heumann.DDC classification: 362.4092 LOC classification: JC571 | .H49 2020
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Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Heumann co-founded the World Institute on Disability with Ed Roberts and Joan Leon in 1983, serving as co-director until 1993. Assistant Secretary of the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitation Services at the US Department of Education. served as the World Bank Group's first Advisor on Disability and Development. Director of the Department of Disability Services for the District of Columbia. Special Advisor on Disability Rights for the US State Department.
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