Noah McCourt

Noah McCourt (born 1994) is an American autistic disability rights activist, politician and social critic who was honored by the United Nations in 2016.

[3] In 2015, McCourt founded the South Metro Chapter of the Minnesota Young Republicans Organization, which encompassed the southwestern suburbs of Minneapolis.

[8] McCourt's appointment to the council received supportive comments from David Durenberger,[8] who served as the United States Senator from Minnesota from 1978 to 1995.

[16] In response to McCourt's criticism, the Chaska Police Department blocked him from their official social media pages.

McCourt subsequently filed suit in United States District Court alleging that the Twitter ban violated the First Amendment.

[19] In September 2018, McCourt filed suit against Carver County, the City of Chanhassen and the City of Norwood Young America alleging that their websites failed to meet the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines and violated the American with Disabilities Act and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.

[21] McCourt founded the Minnesota Disability Justice Network, following the murder of George Floyd to give Minnesotans living with disabilities a voice in social justice movements and the ongoing conversations around police misconduct[22] McCourt was arrested on the highway with fellow activist leaders Nekima Levy Armstrong and Monique Cullars-Doty in November 2020.

At the end of 2021, Minneapolis officials announced that Dight Avenue would be renamed for John Cheatham, one of the first Black firefighters in the city.

This is a close up portrait photo of Disability Advocate Noah McCourt. he is speaking at disability day on the hill and standing in the rotunda of the Minnesota State Capitol at a podium. He is surrounded by Marble walls
Noah McCourt addressing disability advocates in the rotunda of the Minnesota State Capitol