Camp Jened was a “transformative” summer camp for disabled teens that was founded in upstate New York in the 1950s. Recently, Netflix produced a documentary about what it was like for the teens to be at camp for two months. The documentary, titled Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution, also explains how the camp became a springboard for the political activism that led to the passing of the Americans Disability Act (ADA) on July 26, 1990.
Nicole Newnham and Jim LeBrecht, the directors of the camp, feature prominently in the documentary. Jim, who was born with spina bifida, explains why the pair wanted to help make the documentary happen. “I think both of our hopes were that we could reframe how people think of disability and people with disabilities … Maybe we should be treating people [and] thinking about people that are not like us in these fresh eyes and open minds, and realize that things are really not what they seem.”
Many Americans aren’t familiar with the passage of the ADA, and may not even remember the political activism that brought equal rights to disabled Americans.
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