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Life in deaf Communities - Coggle Diagram
Life in deaf Communities
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Deaf clubs
Some clubs were open every evening, or even 24 hours, 7 days, especially during World War II.
Functions included parties, special celebrations, banquets, sports and card games
Most met in rented halls. In some cities, club members raised funds to purchase or build their own clubhouses
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Deaf people govern, socialize, communicate in ASL and organize deaf sports
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Religion
Larger cities, religious services might be interpreted for deaf parishioners; interpreters were often untrained; yet they considered themselves God's devoted saviors rescuing the unfortunates from the devil
Episcopal Church (1884): first church to have ordained a deaf person, Henry Syle, as a priest
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John W. Michaels convinced the Southern Baptist Convention that an estimated 45,000 deaf people had no access to Baptist religious services. Appointed the 1st missionary of deaf people
World Wars
At the end of the war, many deaf workers were laid off. Number rebounded after the Pearl Harbor attack that led to World War II
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Many deaf workers moved to Akron, Ohio to obtain work, primarily at Goodyear
Big towns and cities increased with deaf people seeking factory jobs manufacturing mostly military products
During the wars, deaf Americans patriotism cam out in full force
Post War Doldrums
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Summer 1997: NY police found 62 persons, including some children, from Mexico, living in poverty in two small apartments
Eviction usually happened at the end of the wars. Soldiers returned home or their jobs and displaced whoever stood in for them
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Athletics
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Many deaf clubs sponsored basketball teams that competed in one of the seven regional tournaments, with the winners advancing to the national AAAD basketball tournaments
Sep. 2009, more than 4,000 deaf athletes and officials from 77 nations participated in the 21st Summer Deaflympics in Taipei, Taiwan