Schools in the south
Linguistics
Historical Milestones
Miscellaneous
100

In 1911, the Texas Asylum for the Deaf, Dumb, and Blind Colored Youth changed its name to this.

What is the Texas School For the Deaf?

100

Emmanuel Azodeh, the Author of A Sign of African American Pride, felt that the change in placement for the new sign for Africa forces the viewer's shift in eye gaze causing this effect.

What is looking down upon or being ashamed of Africa or being African?

100

In this year the supreme court’s ruling in Brown Vs. Board of Education made segregation illegal.

When is 1954?

100

Despite the fact that fact that administrators sought out better qualified black deaf teachers to educate the deaf students, a large number of teachers of the African American deaf were this race.

What is white?

200

The doors of this school opened on January 7, 1869 after the state's assembly acknowledged a lack of education for Black deaf and blind individuals making it the first school to educate black deaf children.

What is the North Carolina State School for the Colored Deaf and Blind?

200

In this African American discourse style form of back-channel feedback, the audience is expected to give the speaker verbal feedback.

What is call and response?

200

Black Deaf children were unschooled until after this war.

What is the Civil War?

200

This association first welcomed Black Deaf Americans but in 1925 at the Cleveland conference they revoked the membership of Black members.

What is National Association of The Deaf?

300

In the first year of this school, Black Deaf students were taught Latin, algebra and geometry, however social pressures later led to the push for vocational training.

What is The Texas Asylum for Deaf, Dumb, and Blind Colored Youth. 

300

The social factors that led to the development of BASL also led to this spoken language variation.

What is African American English?

300

In this year Gallaudet College was fully integrated.

When is 1967?

300

A 1989 study shows that 87% of the American Black Deaf people polled identified with this part of their culture first.

What is their Black culture?

400

In the book The Hidden Treasure of Black ASL, data was collected from Deaf Schools in these six states.

Where are North Carolina, Arkansas, Texas, Alabama, Virginia, and Louisiana? 

400

These social factors in both spoken and signed languages contribute to language variation. 

What are region, age, gender, socioeconomic status, and race.

400

This 1951 lawsuit was the first to challenge the segregation of black and white deaf children.

What is Miller v. Education of the District of Columbia?

400

The school in this state had the longest amount of time between the establishment of the school or department and desegregation, 101 years.

Where is Washington, D.C.?
500

This man founded the Virginia state school for the Colored Deaf and Blind, and remained at the school from its opening in 1909 until 1937.

Who is William Charles Ritter?

500

Incorporation of AAE into signing, vocabulary differences, amount of mouthing and these five other features are possible distinguishing features of black ASL.

What are two handed vs. one handed signs, use of repetition, forehead location, use of role shifting (ca/cd), and size of signing space.

500

After Pennsylvania superintendent, E.A. Gruver discussed the issue of the lack of black teachers in 1931, a special training center for Black teachers of the deaf was started at West Virginia State College in Institute in this year.

When is 1938?

500
At the Kendall school in 1952, instead of school buses the black deaf students were transported in this type of vehicle.

What are yellow cabs?