Deaf Rights Protest

Witness History

BBC

History, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.4 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2018

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Students at deaf-only Gallaudet University in Washington DC shut-down the campus in protest when the board of trustees appointed a hearing President in March 1988. They barricaded the campus with buses, marched to the White House and made the front page of the New York Times. Claire Bowes has been speaking to Dr I King Jordan, who was eventually appointed the first ever deaf President in the University's long history.

(Photo: Student protestors, courtesy of Gallaudet University)

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1:15.4	This is a podcast about eyewitness history and today we're returning to March the 6th
1:22.3	1988 and a protest that began at the world's only
1:27.0	university for the death.
1:29.3	2,000 students took over the campus at Gallaudet University in Washington DC.
1:35.0	They were protesting against the selection of a hearing person as the new president of the university.
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