Hello and welcome this is the History Hour podcast from the BBC World Service with me Max Pearson the past brought to life by those who were there.

This week Marie Stopes and the early fight for women's reproductive rights.

There was a copy of wise parenthood in the window,

police outside guarding the place,

in case our enemies would break windows or something.

Plus the life and times of the political thinker Hannah Arndt will examine language and history in Azerbaijan and

and...

The female creative mind and body behind Wonder Woman.

In my youth, I may have had an appearance and definitely the attitude of Wonder Woman.

That's all to come in the podcast, but we begin in the usually calm and somewhat stayed

confines of academia. An environment which for a few weeks in 1988 was shaken up by a protest at the

world's only university solely for the deaf.

2,000 students took over the campus at Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C.

to protest against the selection of a hearing person as the new president of the university.

The demonstrations and the media coverage helped to change attitudes towards deaf people.

Claire Bose has been speaking to King Jordan who became the first deaf president of Galadette.

We want the first deaf president of Galadette. We want a death work now. We want a death president now. The

slogan filled the air for days in March 1988 as students barricaded Gallaudet University

holding placards and stopping anyone from entering the campus.

There were TV trucks 24 hours a day.

They were parked along the road.

The story was on the front page of the Washington Post

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