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How ‘Crip Camp’ Immerses Us in a Movement
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How ‘Crip Camp’ Immerses Us in a Movement

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Christopher Campbell
Mar 26, 2020
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In the early 1970s, a summer camp for kids with disabilities became the launching pad for a new civil rights movement, which eventually led to the passing of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. The story of how that happened is now chronicled in the Netflix documentary Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution.

One of the film’s directors, James Lebrec…

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