Nathie Marbury: The Western Pennsylvania School For The Deaf

She focused on how hard things use to be for African Americans. She wanted to get her point across about the way African American’s use to be treated. No one would ever listen to what she had to say, that inspired her to write the books. She wrote about experiences from her own past and those of her family members. Using the Logan family, she told her stories through them.

In the mid 1940’s special schools begun to provide education for deaf children. In 1946 the first special education program for the deaf and hard of hearing of

In this 2 hours of deaf history I found it very interesting. It taught me a lot about deaf history. In those 2 hours I found out about how people would treated deaf people. Deaf people were treated very badly, they were treated like something was wrong with them. There is nothing wrong with them even though they can’t hear, nothing is wrong with them they are still humans with feeling. Deaf people were told that they had to go to a school so they could learn to talk (oral schools). In those they were not aloud to sign or use hands in class. They would try and teach deaf kids how to speak by putting their hands on the teacher's throat to feel the vibrations of when the teacher speak and the kids had to copy that feeling on themselves and when

The video titled “The D: Detroit Deaf Education” is about the deaf students and their parents explaining their experiences with Detroit Public Schools, specifically the deaf education that the students are receiving. I chose this video because it is directly related to my major, ASL Education and hopefully Deaf Education in the future as well. I wanted to see what it’s like for the students in Detroit Public Schools and if the education they receive is appropriate for them as well.

Heather Whitestone has contributed so much to deaf history. In 1995 Heather made history by being crowned the first deaf Miss America. She has raised awareness for Deaf and hard of hearing people all over the United States. She has written three books, been part of the National Council on Disability, promoted awareness for deaf issues, and ,of course, been the first deaf woman to win the Miss America title.

Anne Moody grew up in the south as a sharecropper on a plantation in the postwar south that still had Jim Crow controlling what the black population was able to do and what they couldn’t do. The Moody family was poor and was trying to make a living working for a white farmer. They and the other black plantation workers lived in a tiny two bed shack without electricity and plumbing, while the Carter’s house had both. Anne’s childhood was very difficult when her father decided to leave the family and have an affair with another black women. After this happened Anne, her mother, and her siblings moved around a lot while Anne’s mother, Toosweet, look for work. Eventually working as a waitress and as a maid for white families. Even while the family is struggling Anne continues to do well in school and decides to start working part-time as well to help put food on the table for the family. She was only in fourth grade. Some of white families that she worked for even encouraged her to continue her studies as she got to high school, while others were extreme racists and accused her and her brother of doing things that they didn’t do. As time went on Anne’s mother meets Raymond Davis and start a relationship with each other and Anne starts to enjoy her new life, but starts to get into several conflicts with her mother.

It is often said that kids don’t usually understand race or racism, and that is true until Janie is met with kids who have faced oppression all their lives. Janie is a young girl who is raised by her grandmother in the deep South during the 1930’s. Janie lives among many white kids and doesn’t realize that she is not white until she sees a photo of the children and cannot identify herself in the picture. “Dat’s where Ah wuz s’posed to be, but Ah couldn’t recognize dat dark chile as me. So Ah ast, ‘where is me?’ Ah don’t see me’”(9). Janie didn’t know that she was a black girl because she had always been treated the same as the white kids, and they never treated her any differently than anyone else. The only kids that ever abused her with their words were the other black kids at school, they always teased her for living in

Growing up as a poor African American in Mississippi was not always an easy, especially in the 1960’s. It was a time where everyone was segregated. Blacks and whites were treated completely different. They weren’t allowed to eat at the same restaurants, go into the same bathroom, or even drink from the same water fountain. Anne Moody did just that. As just a young girl being raised by extremely poor black family in the South, she personally experienced the difference between the lives of blacks and whites. She was growing up in the middle of the civil rights movement, where African American struggled everyday. At a very young age Moody became challenged by many instances

A major turning point in Anne’s life was when she heard of the murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till, who had allegedly whistled at a White woman. She was tremendously bothered by the murder and was unable to sleep or work for days. She realizes that she has been greatly unaware of the racial inequality and violence going on around her. When she was younger, she struggled to figure out the difference between the races and she gains no more insight or understanding of why there was such inequality, as she grew older. This causes her to wonder if there any true differences between Blacks and Whites, other than the fact that the Whites typically employed the Blacks. She now fears being murdered simply for being Black.

Betty G. Miller was born in 1934, and her parents were both Deaf. Betty had two older brothers who were hearing, so everyone just assumed that Betty was too, especially because she could clearly hear a little bit. It was a surprise to everyone in her family when she attended Kindergarten for the first time and was diagnosed as Hard of Hearing. This threw her family for a loop. Remembering all the prejudice and oppression they had experienced at the hands of hearing people, Betty’s parents decided that they wanted her to make the most use of whatever hearing she had. This is why they made the surprising decision to send her to Bell School in Chicago – a school known for Oralistic practices. Later, Betty’s parents took her out of Bell School

Linda was born deaf on November 30, 1945, to deaf parents. She was born in Garfield, New Jersey. As a child, she attended schools in both Bronx, New York and Trenton, New Jersey, so she could get the best deaf education. She went to St. Joseph School for the Deaf, Marie Katzenbach School for the Deaf, which she graduated from in 1963. After high school, she attended Gallaudet University for college, where she studied library science. While in college, she got into theatre, where she was in multiple theatrical productions, such as, “The Threepenny Opera” and poetic characterizations of the “Spoon River Anthology”. After becoming more

Even though her mother was a light skin black woman, she did not want to live her life as a lie, by living as a white woman. Her mother embraced her blackness, which forced her to find work as a maid; her employers did not treat her with the same dignity as a white woman would receive. After seeing what her mother went through for accepting her blackness and living her life as a black woman, she knew that was not the life she wanted to live.

Edna St. Vincent Millay was born in Rockland, Maine on February 2, 1892. She was the first daughter of three girls; her parents, Cora Buzzelle Millay and Henry Tolman Millay. Millay's parents divorced in 1900 and her mother

On Tuesday, October 20, 2015 I entered the School for the Deaf & Blind for the second time. I wasn’t exactly excited about it, but I wasn’t bored by it either. I had a calm yet eerie feeling about it. It turned out to be a good day overall though. There wasn’t much science and medicine to the mix, but to develop a relationship whether it was just one for a short period of time or if I was to have a lasting effect on the students was good enough. Although the teachers warned me about the "violence" or "acting out" that the students portrayed, they didn’t act like that toward me; and that made me feel better about communicating with them. The following day I had to go to a clinical site known as Florence Chapel Middle School in Duncan. There

First we were placed a facilities based on our interest and/or related with our major. St. John's School for the Deaf was my placement for Monday and Tuesday then on Wednesday I was in the hospital. I am so excited to be able to go both places. The school started 1978 in Banjul by Irish missionary Patrick Nolan who wanted to help a deaf child to communicate then school was founded for the deaf in Mission House. In 1983 the government located land for the school and the Catholic Mission funded for proper school to establish.