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Deafness and Black History: One Leader's Perspective
The African-American community embodies a rich system of educational, political, and cultural supports that seek to ensure the visibility—and validity—of its community members within mainstream society at large. Paramount to this system is the presence of socio-political organizations that advocate for the needs of African Americans at local, state, and national levels of participation. Given that African Americans are the largest racial minority group in the USA, it would be unthinking to believe that such organizations can serve the needs of every African American. The community itself is diverse, representing myriad variables of national origin, skin color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, and—most importantly for the sake of this article—disability. While the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and similar-minded political advocacy groups are progressive in their own right, Deaf African Americans envisioned the need for a national organization focused on the needs of Bl...Read More
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