She’d be applauding the recent UN ruling that the CRPD required Talking ATMs in Hungary, and she’d be shaming Republic Senators here at home whose lies and right-wing politics blocked CRPD passage last December. We also know with certainty that if she were alive today, Harriet would be on the forefront of fighting for United States ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). And she was an early member of a loose affiliation of disability rights lawyer that has in the past five years grown into the vibrant Disability Rights Bar Association. She didn’t live to finally see Jerry Lewis’ departure as hurtful spokesperson for the MDA, but she certainly had a hand in making it happen. McBryde Johnson made an enormous impact during a life that was too short, and her legacy continues in ways large and small. Harriet McBryde Johnson is worth remembering.
With today’s 24/7 news cycle and a deluge of information each morning when we turn on our computers, is it easy to forget to stop and remember people no longer with us. Five years ago today, on June 4, 2008, disability rights activist Harriet McBryde Johnson died unexpectedly at her home in South Carolina at age 50.
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