A review by tbellesmom
Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist by Judith Heumann, Kristen Joiner

3.0

This book was given to me by my work after we had a meeting about disabilities in the workplace and the author was one of the speakers. She was a great speaker and mainly spoke about going to a camp when she was younger and how that was the first place she truly felt independent and didn't feel like her disability was in any way holding her back. This book truly opened my eyes to the struggles that disabled individuals had just trying to be a part of daily society. In the 50s, 60s and 70s they had no option of public transportation, weren't expected to go to school and couldn't even leave their block as there was no ramp at intersections, just the drop off of a curb. Judy definitely paved the way for so many other individuals and was very inspiring.