A new generation of disability rights activists carry on Judy Heumann's legacy
An NPR article reports that a new generation of disability rights activists, the ADA generation, carries on Judy Heumann's legacy as the film Being Heumann, opening November 2026 in theaters and on Apple TV, retells her role in the 1977 San Francisco sit-in led with Kitty Cone that won enforceable rules for Section 504; Heumann died in 2023. Activists like Kaleigh Brendle, who founded Judy's League, say they are pushing back against Trump administration rollbacks and an October 2026 ruling stripping "integration" language from Section 504 regulations, seeing the same battles fought nearly 50 years later.
