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This research examines the history of the North American deaf community over the past century and how the influence of Alexander Graham Bell, eugenics, and Oralism shaped the course of deaf history. Through the control of social, political, and education policies, the hearing pu…

Between her debut as a public elocutionist in 1883, introduced by the revered abolitionist Frederick Douglass, and her retirement from the stage in 1919, to join Marcus Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association, Henrietta Vinton Davis was considered by many to be the lead…