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About Harriet Bell
Harriet Bell was an American advocate for disability rights. She was a co-founder and director of the Polio Information Center and a member of the New York State Board for Nursing. Residing in the Goldwater Memorial Hospital after contracting polio, she was president of the hospital board for four terms, participating in drafting the Patients' Bill of Rights. In 1982, she was the recipient of the Wonder Woman Foundation Award of Warner Communications Inc. as an agent of change.
Everything about Harriet Bell →- Occupation
- disability rights activist, writer
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- July 14, 1923
- Died
- September 10, 1995