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Deaf University Protest

How deaf students in the USA forced their university to appoint a deaf president instead of a hearing person.

In 1988 a protest got underway at the world's only university for the deaf. Two thousand students occupied their campus at Gallaudet University in Washington DC in protest against the selection of a hearing person as the institution's new president. Their action caught the media's attention and helped change attitudes towards deaf people. Claire Bowes spoke to the man who became the first deaf President of Gallaudet, his name is I. King Jordan.

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Tue 22 May 2018 12:04

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