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Winning, losing, and learning through sports
Together in the dorms: Community life at boarding school
Trades and Training for Boys
State School in an Expanding Nation
Lincoln signs act of congress to authorize Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind to confer degrees
Little Paper Family: Deaf students turn to newspapers and magazines
Home away from home: Schools for the Deaf
Home Skills – Training in sewing, cooking, and hairstyling
From Asylum to School: Families pool their resources
Family ties: Deaf children away at school get creative for writing to parents
Classroom learning for Deaf students
After school: Extracurricular activities at Gallaudet
A language shared by hand and heart: Laurent Clerc brings sign language from Paris
A place of our own: the first permanent school for deaf children
A solemn responsibility, a cup of consolation
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National Deaf Life Museum
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History Through Deaf Eyes
Formation of a Community
Segregated Schools in the post-war South
Before the Civil War, most southern states provided no formal education for African American deaf students. After the war, during the period known as Reconstruction, the federal government began to force social changes in the South. In 1868, North Carolina created a “Colored Department” alongside the main state school for deaf students. Other southern states soon followed, creating separate schools or departments.
Kentucky School for the Deaf c. 1884
Kentucky School for the Deaf c. 1889 – 1890
Black and white students were taught on the same campus at the Kentucky School for the Deaf, but they had separate classrooms and dormitories. Kentucky School for the Deaf c. May 1920