Judith Heumann, ‘mother’ of disability rights movement, dead at 75

Activist Judith Heumann, who worked for the rights of disabled people for over five decades, including under two presidential administrations, died Saturday at 75, her team confirmed. Heumann required the use of a wheelchair from the use of an early age due to polio. In 1970, she was denied a teaching license in New York City, with city officials arguing her wheelchair was a fire…