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 ...

James LeBrecht moved to the cradle of the disabled rights movement as a young man. After graduating from UC San Diego in 1978, he was drawn to Berkeley where the first Center for Independent Living ...