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Segregation in Deaf History - Coggle Diagram
Segregation in Deaf History
Categories
Gender
Race
Communication
Oral Department
Manual Department
Gallaudet College
Women were not allowed to attend until 1887, 23 years after opening
Six women were admitted to the college only as an experiment, but it was open up to all women the following year.
President Gallaudet was never too "warmly in favor of co education."
Facilities were not built for women yet, so they had to stay on campus in House One
The board of directors voted that Gallaudet spend half his time with the "young ladies" in the college
A furnished unit was finally given to the young women after two years of being at the college.
African Americans At College
Percival Hall stated that he didn't see a problem as to why black people couldn't attend the college.
African Americans were not admitted until the 1950s
James Gilbert from Ohio School for the Deaf was the first black student to be admitted to Gallaudet College.
Andrew J. Foster was the first black student to graduate from Gallaudet/ was also the first to be awarded the Doctor of Humane Letters
A campus near the college had no rules against black people being at their elementary/junior high/high school
Allowed black students to be in the classroom with everyone else, but had separate sleeping facilities.
College Programs
"Separate, but equal"
Division I: White students, with classrooms and dormitories
Classes were held on the opposite side of campus in a gym for black students
Division II: Black students with the gym as a classroom
Black students were taxied home after school, while the white students got to live on campus.
Black students had to divide their classrooms by using blackboards as dividers
In 1953, the building for Division II was finalized for the black students; it included dormitories and classrooms.
In 1954, Brown v. Board of Education made everything integrated, so the black students got to live in the white dormitories if they wanted
After the Civil War
First school for Deaf black students opened in 1869 in North Carolina
Black students moved to white schools, but white people never really seemed to move to black schools
Black teachers also did not integrate to white schools because there were no jobs for them.