<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:xx-large">National Deaf History Month.</div><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Computer/Electronic Accommodations Program</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:DoDCAP@public.govdelivery.com">DoDCAP@public.govdelivery.com</a>></span><br>Date: Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 10:32 AM<br>Subject: National Deaf History Month<br>To: <a href="mailto:james.newell@nara.gov">james.newell@nara.gov</a><br><br><br><u></u>
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<p>National Deaf History Month is March 13th to April 15<sup>th</sup> of every year. This is so the observance can span three important days in Deaf history.</p>
<p>The first day of National Deaf History Month, March 13<sup>th</sup>, marks the success of the 1988 Deaf President Now movement at Gallaudet University. Though the university was established in 1864, Gallaudet had never had a Deaf president.</p>
<p>On March 6, 1988, the university announced its decision to appoint a hearing president even though there were many qualified Deaf candidates. In response, students protested until March 13, when the university agreed to appoint I. King Jordan as university president, Gallaudet’s first Deaf president.</p>
<p>The second key date of National Deaf History Month is April 8. On April 8<sup>th</sup>, 1864, President Abraham Lincoln signed the charter for Gallaudet University, the first university in the world dedicated to educating individuals who are Deaf and hard-of-hearing.</p>
<p>In 1856, Amos Kendall donated two acres of his estate in Washington, D.C. to establish a school for 12 deaf and six blind students. Later, Edward Miner Gallaudet, the son of the founder of the first school for deaf students, became the superintendent of the school. In 1864, Congress approved the school to become a university, and President Lincoln signed the bill into law.</p>
<p>April 15, the final day of National Deaf History Month, marks the opening of the first permanent public school for the deaf. In 1817, Yale graduate Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet met Dr. Mason Fitch Cogswell, who had a daughter who was deaf. While learning how to educate Deaf children, Gallaudet enlisted Laurent Clerc, a Deaf teacher in Paris, to help him establish a school for the deaf and hard-of-hearing in the United States.</p>
<p>Through this cooperation, the American School for the Deaf opened its doors on April 15, 1817.</p>
<p>To learn more about National Deaf History Month, please visit <a href="https://www.nad.org/2012/03/16/celebrate-deaf-history-month-march-13-april-15-2012/" target="_blank">https://www.nad.org/2012/03/<wbr>16/celebrate-deaf-history-<wbr>month-march-13-april-15-2012/</a>.</p>
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