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Detroit’s Deaf Heritage (Images of America)

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Detroit, the Motor City, welcomed many newcomers to work and have interaction within the deaf community within the early 20th century. The booming job market attracted Benjamin and Ralph Beaver, deaf brothers from Iuka, Illinois, who helped form the Detroit Association of the Deaf (DAD) Club–celebrating its 100th anniversary in 2016. Others included the Wahowiak circle of relatives, who ran a shoe repair business in Higher Michigan for 2 deaf generations; Arlyn Meyerson, a deaf restaurateur for 55 years; Glenn Stewart, the primary black deaf man graduated from Rochester Institute of Technology; and Dudley Cutshaw, an established deaf local leader. As well as, Grand Rapids, Flint, and Higher Michigan every contributed to this great deaf heritage by affiliating with Detroit’s deaf community. Through vintage photographs of a success organizations, including Catholic Deaf Organization, Motor City Association of the Deaf, Black Silent Club, Michigan Deaf School, and Flint Association for the Deaf, Detroit’s Deaf Heritage illustrates the evolution of the deaf community and its prominent leaders.

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