Deaf President Now!

Last night, I just passed the tap on the Apple TV. They recommend the new movie 'Deaf President Now! '. Before, I watched 'Coda ' on Apple TV, too. First, impressive is really so shocked! and so impressive that moment. Also, Coda's Oscar speech is an amazing moment that year.

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Deaf President Now!
Release Date: May 16, 2025

The story of the greatest civil rights movement most people have never heard of.

“Deaf President Now!” recounts the eight days of historic protests held at Gallaudet University in 1988 after the school’s board of trustees appointed a hearing president over several very qualified Deaf candidates. After a week of rallies, boycotts and protests, the students of Gallaudet University triumph as the hearing president resigns and beloved dean Dr. I. King Jordan becomes the university’s first Deaf president. The protests marked a pivotal moment in civil rights history, with an impact that extended well beyond the Gallaudet campus, and paved the way for the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). “Deaf President Now!” features exclusive interviews with the five key figures of the movement, including the Gallaudet Four — Jerry Covell, Bridgetta Bourne-Firl, Tim Rarus and Greg Hlibok — alongside I. King Jordan, as well as archival and scripted elements. The film also incorporates an experimental narrative approach called Deaf Point of View, using impressionistic visual photography and intricate sound design to thrust the audience into the Deaf experience.

Gallaudet University https://gallaudet.edu/

Signed. Sealed. Chartered.

In 1864, Gallaudet University became federally funded when President Abraham Lincoln signed the charter bill into law, leading to our first commencement in 1869 – whose attendees included none other than President Ulysses S. Grant.

A Charter and a Champion: The Meaning of Lincoln's Legacy at Gallaudet

Dec 10, 2018
By Roberta J. Cordano

Deaf History and The Future for Gallaudet

On April 8, we celebrated the 154th year of the signing of Gallaudet University’s charter by President Abraham Lincoln in 1864. We celebrated this moment because the founding of Gallaudet University through this charter was truly a seminal moment in our world’s history. This new idea, radically innovative for its time, would provide deaf, hard of hearing and deaf-blind people “a fair chance in the race of life,” as Lincoln would say.

As Gallaudet’s president, I believe it is important to honor and reflect upon just how far we have come in that race.

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In a short span of 154 years, granting access to collegiate-level bilingual visual learning at Gallaudet has contributed to producing unprecedented economic opportunity and wealth creation for the deaf people here and around the world. Our alumni are among some of our country’s and world’s distinguished leaders, innovators, and change-makers. Gallaudet’s unique niche, which is grounded in the experience of deaf people and the use of sign language, has built Gallaudet’s reputation as one of the leading and most innovative universities in the world because of our unique contributions.

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Since Lincoln’s Charter signing, contributions from Gallaudet and its alumni include:

Discovering of American Sign Language

Affirming that the Deaf community has culture

Declaring our political and civil rights

Discovering and altering our understanding of how the brain acquires language

Patenting real-time texting technology

Developing captioning and advocating for expanding access to media through captioning