A place of their own : creating the deaf community in America /

Van Cleve, John V.

A place of their own : creating the deaf community in America / John Vickrey Van Cleve, Barry A. Crouch. - Washington, D.C. : Gallaudet University Press, 1989. - xii, 212 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 192-201) and index.

Preface -- Prophets and physicians -- To educate a deaf person -- Braidwood and the Bollings -- A permanent school -- The residential school experience -- A deaf state -- A college -- Organizing -- Cultural connections -- The assault on sign language -- The struggle to save signs -- Marriage -- Employing the deaf community -- Epilogue.

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Deaf people--History.--United States
Deafness--history--United States.
Sourds--Histoire.--�Etats-Unis
Geh�orlosigkeit
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Deaf United States History

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