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“It’s Really Historic”: ‘Crip Camp’ Subject Judy Heumann On Disability Rights Documentary’s Oscar Nomination
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deadline.comWhen Judy Heumann—one of the main subjects of the Oscar-nominated documentary Crip Camp—was five years old in the early 1950s, her mother tried to register her for kindergarten in New York City.
The staff took one look at Judy, who used a wheelchair as a result of polio, and denied her.“The school principal said I was a fire hazard, I couldn’t go to the school,” Heumann recalls. “He told my family, ‘Don’t worry, the Board of Education will send a teacher to your house.’ Well, they did.
Not in kindergarten, but for the first, second, third and half of the fourth grade, for a total of two and a half hours a week.
So that was a very clear message that their expectations for me were not the expectations my parents had for me.”Heumann contracted
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