Watch this short documentary with vintage 1970s news footage about Judith Heumann and many others struggling to get Section 504--which was already U.S. federal law--to actually get enforced.

Cringe at the terms used in the 1970s to describe people with disabilities...

https://youtu.be/52XqupjXHIM

The Power of 504 by the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund (DREDF)

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Summing up my day:
From #JudithHeumann memoir: Saying something is expensive, unsafe, or impossible pushes you down a rabbit warren of arguments… it distracts from the issue that when something is a civil right we must have ingenuity.
From the #NationalCivilRightsMuseum:
DID THE MARCH SUCCEED?
…The march was a remarkable moment that offered America a vision of a better society. But it was only a single day in the African American freedom struggle.
#Memphis @bookstodon

Time for #BreakfastAndBooks

More #JudithHeumann + latte + yes that is a brioche jalapeño popper bomb.

#HustleAndDough #Memphis

Definitely read pauses between the words “They. Were. Not. Happy.”
(Description of enacting disability rights passage of the Rehabilitation Act)
#JudithHeumann #DisabilityJustice #BooksInBars #bookstodon