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The Guardian - US
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Edwin Rios

Judith Heumann, activist who led US disability rights movement, dies aged 75

Judy Heumann in 1982.
Judy Heumann in 1982. Photograph: John Duricka/AP

The savvy, wheelchair-using civil rights activist Judith Heumann, who led a movement to reimagine what it means to be disabled in the US, died on Saturday at a hospital in Washington DC.

Heumann had been hospitalized for a week dealing with heart issues that may have stemmed from her lifelong challenge with polio, the Associated Press reported. She was 75.

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