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National Public Radio

Advocate For People With Mental Illnesses Dies

Judi Chamberlin, who died this weekend at age 65, was a civil rights hero from a civil rights movement you may have never heard of. She took her inspiration from the heroes of other civil rights movements to start something she liked to call Mad Pride — a movement for the rights and dignity of people with mental illness

Filed Under: Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Olmsted decision, profile, psychiatric disability, public policy

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