Two decades ago, I. King Jordan took the podium as president of Gallaudet University.

It remains a watershed moment. After prolonged and raucous protest, the world’s only liberal arts college for the deaf had appointed its first deaf president. The college’s board had to rescind a choice it had already made.

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