In 1898, Blacks were accepted and received education at the Kendall School on the Gallaudet University campus, but white parents objected to racial integration in 1905.
Seventy years after their graduation, a school for deaf and hard-of-hearing children in Washington, D.C., rectified an injustice by honoring Black deaf students and teachers who attended and served its segregated campus.
The 24 students who attended the Kendall School Division II for Negroes on the today!
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