Gallaudet University

Gallaudet College Historic District
National Register of Historic Places
National Historic Landmark
Historic District
Chapel Hall
location	Washington, DC
Coordinates	38 ° 54 '25 "  N , 76 ° 59' 34"  W Coordinates: 38 ° 54 '25 "  N , 76 ° 59' 34"  W.
NRHP number	66000856
Data
The NRHP added	October 15, 1966
Declared as an  NHL	December 21, 1965
Declared as  HD	September 10, 1974

College Hall

The Gallaudet University in Washington, DC is the first university for deaf and hard of hearing , which has adapted its entire program and all services specifically to these students students and the only one.

The institution was founded on February 16, 1857 , initially only as a school, in Washington, DC as the "Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind" by the US Secretary of the Post Amos Kendall . Kendal appointed Edward Miner Gallaudet , then 20 , son of United States co-founder of Education for the Deaf, Thomas H. Gallaudet , as director. Seven years later, federal law signed by Abraham Lincoln authorized the institution to establish a college level and award college degrees. From then on it was called "National Deaf-Mute College", which it kept until it was renamed "Gallaudet College" in 1894 .

On December 21, 1965, Gallaudet University was recognized as a National Historic Landmark and listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in October 1966 . The university president's house, named after Edward Miner Gallaudet , was added to the NRHP in February 1974 as an architectural monument of its own importance. On September 10, 1974, the university campus was added to the NRHP as a Historic District .

In 1986, she was by an Act of the US Congress for University explains ( "Gallaudet University"). Since then, Bachelor , Master and PhD degrees have been awarded to graduates every year.

In March 1988, the university's students protested against the administration under the slogan Deaf President Now and demanded that the next president himself be deaf when the management was replaced. After occupying the building for weeks, the board of directors responded to the request and named I. King Jordan as head. Jordan grew to be a prominent activist for the disabled, not just the hearing impaired. Since then, the management and administration of the university have mainly been occupied by deaf people. The protests were a major contributor to the enactment of the Americans with Disabilities Act , the central American law on equality for people with disabilities.

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Individual evidence

1. ↑ Listing of National Historic Landmarks by State: District of Columbia. National Park Service , accessed July 19, 2019.
   Gallaudet College Historic District on the National Register Information System. National Park Service , accessed August 4, 2017.
2. ^ President's House, Gallaudet College on the National Register Information System. National Park Service , accessed August 4, 2017.
3. ^ Gallaudet College Historic District on the National Register Information System. National Park Service , accessed August 4, 2017.
4. ↑ citylabs: How 'Deaf President Now' Changed America , April 13, 2018