Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution

[Netflix Only] James Lebrecht's and Nicole Newnham's powerful, educational, poignant, eye-opening, inspirational, heartfelt, 108-minute, 2020 documentary that examines the discrimination many people with disabilities encounter, the struggles and joys in daily life of disabled teenage campers who spent summers at Camp Jened in New York between 1951 and 1977 many of whom became activists to help pass the ADA legislation in 1990 to expand the rights and accessibility for those with physical and mental disabilities so that they can live a normal life as possible and consists of archival film footage and candid commentary by campers (such as James Lebrecht, Ann Cupolo Freeman, and Denise Sherer Jacobson), camp director Larry Allison, counselors (such as Joseph O'Conor, Lionel Je'Woodyard, and Stephen Hofmann), writer and activist Corbett O'Toole, journalist HolLynn D'Lil, reporter Evan White, civil rights activist Judith Heumann, and 504 protest leaders Kitty Cone, Brad Lomas, and Dennis Billups.
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