Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution, the latest documentary from Barack and Michelle Obama’s production company, Higher Ground Productions, tells the true story of how a summer camp for teenagers with physical and mental disabilities laid the groundwork for a civil rights victory.
Camp Jened was founded in 1951 in the Catskills in upstate New York with the intention of being a safe haven for youth with disabilities.
Activist Judy Heumann, 72, a polio survivor who has been in a wheelchair most of her life, and Jim LeBrecht, 63, who was born with spina bifida and has always used a wheelchair, recall their...
Camp Jened was founded in 1951 in the Catskills in upstate New York with the intention of being a safe haven for youth with disabilities.
Activist Judy Heumann, 72, a polio survivor who has been in a wheelchair most of her life, and Jim LeBrecht, 63, who was born with spina bifida and has always used a wheelchair, recall their...
- 4/2/2020
- by Nigel Smith
- PEOPLE.com
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