Being Heumann review – stirring biopic of a pioneering disability rights campaigner
In the lead is British actor Ruth Madeley, who has spina bifida and is herself a disability rights activist; she gives a forthright, smart, sympathetic performance.
Heumann’s finest hour was to get the federal government to sign into law Section 504 of the 1973 Rehabilitation Act, whose accessibility provisions had been resisted by Nixon, Ford and then Carter.
In 1977, Heumann led a guerrilla sit-in occupation of the San Francisco Health, Education and Welfare….
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