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  • Judith Heumann
    In Judith Heumann

    …cofounded the political action group Disabled in Action, which led a protest that shut down rush-hour traffic in Manhattan to protest U.S. Pres. Richard Nixon’s veto of the Rehabilitation Act of 1972. Heumann then enrolled in the public health program at the University of California at Berkeley (Master of Public…

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