"Paralyzed from polio at eighteen months, Judy Heumann began her struggle for equality early in life. From fighting to attend grade school, to later winning a lawsuit against the New York City school system for denying her a teacher's license because of her paralysis and becoming the first wheelchair rider to receive a teacher's license, to leading the Section 504 sit-in, which led to the creation of the Americans with Disabilities Act, Judy has set precedents that improved rights for disabled people. Candid, intimate, and irreverent, Being Heumann is a story of one woman's lifelong battle - from the streets of Brooklyn and San Francisco to inside the halls of Washington - to make real a world in which we all belong"-- Provided by publisher.
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