Blooks
What year did the DPN movement take place?
1988
Who suggested the students march to the Mayflower Hotel where the Board was staying?
Gary Olson
How many times did the students march to Capitol Hill?
7 times
How many years did it take Gaulladet University to get a deaf president?
124 years
Why was the walk to Mayflower important?
It was the first mass Deaf March in History.
What did the students use as barriers to keep the administrators out of the school?
Buses
What role did the Board of Trustees play in the DPN movement?
The Board of Trustees initially appointed a hearing president which sparked protests in the deaf community.
How long did the students of Gallaudet argue with the Board of Trustees?
3 hours
What type of presidents did Gaullaet have over its 124 years of existence?
white, male, hearing presidents
What were the 4 demands?
1. The selected president, Elizabeth Zinser, should resign and a Deaf president should be installed.
2. The chairman of the Board of Trustees, Jane Spilman, should step down.
3. The Board of Trustees should have a majority 51% Deaf members.
4. There should be no reprisals for or retaliation against anyone involved with the protests.
What did Jesse L. Jackson say?
The problem isn't that the students don't hear, the problem is that the hearing world won't listen.
How long did the protests last?
A week
What message of the DPN movement was centered around this principle?
What is equality or self representation
What would the school be like now if the DPN movement did not occur?
There would have been no representation for the Deaf students at Gallaudet University and the ADA would have not been created.
What group of people stood with the students of Gallaudet for the DPN movement?
The hearing students who went to Gallaudet University, Students who previously graduated from Gallaudet University, and the local Black community.
What did the students of Gallaudet do to the effigies/doll of Elizabeth Zinser
They burned it.
How long did it take for the ADA to be created after the DPN movement?
2 years
How did the Board of Trustees announce Zinser's selection?
They distributed flyers saying that she had been chosen.
What's the name of the senator that supported the DPN movement and had a deaf brother?
Tom Harkin
What overseas countries started collegiate programs for the deaf?
Japan, Sweden,South Africa
What Deaf celebrity stepped in and joined the DPN movement?
Marlee Matlin
What was the name of the director of the National Association of the Deaf during the DPN movement?
Gary Olson
What banner was loaned to the students and was used in another important movement with the quote "WE STILL HAVE A DREAM"?
The banner used in the Civil Rights marches
Who said the Quote " This is the greatest insult to the Deaf people of America, twenty-six million of them, and they are disgusted".
The NAD Director