Social Justice Task Force Heritage Book Club Discussion Group

Social Justice Task Force Heritage Book Club presents its newest selection for the month of July, Disability Pride Month.

BEING HEUMANN: AN UNREPENTANT MEMOIR OF A DISABILITY RIGHTS ACTIVIST
by JUDITH HEUMANN

“One of the most influential disability rights activists in US history tells her personal story of fighting for the right to receive an education, have a job, and just be human.
A story of fighting to belong in a world that wasn’t built for all of us and of one woman’s activism—from the streets of Brooklyn and San Francisco to inside the halls of Washington—Being Heumann recounts
Judy Heumann’s lifelong battle to achieve respect, acceptance, and inclusion in society. As a young woman, Judy rolled her wheelchair through the doors of the US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare in San Francisco as a leader of the Section 504 Sit-In, the longest takeover of a governmental
building in US history. Working with a community of over 150 disabled activists and allies, Judy successfully pressured the Carter administration to implement protections for disabled peoples’ rights,
sparking a national movement and leading to the creation of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Candid, intimate, and irreverent, Judy Heumann’s memoir about resistance to exclusion invites readers to imagine and make real a world in which we all belong.”
—From the author’s website

We also recommend watching the amazing documentary “Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution” (available on Netflix) to see Judy Heumann at the start of her activism in Disability Rights.
Please join us via zoom on Sunday August 4th at 11:30am to discuss this amazing story of collective action turned into a movement to secure accessibility and inclusion for all!

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUof-2qqzItE9Ml5X7CRJ68u9uzImcI4VPx