History Archives - Trudy Suggs

Nearly 50 Years Later: The Chicago Fire that Killed Two Deaf Students (Part 2)
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Nearly 50 Years Later: The Chicago Fire that Killed Two Deaf Students (Part 2)

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Nearly 50 Years Later: The Chicago Fire that Killed Two Deaf Students (Part 2)

By trudy|2024-12-07T20:10:15-05:00January 26, 2018|

By Trudy Suggs (Click here for my thoughts on this story in ASL and English). PART 2 (Read Part 1 here) Zeke [...]

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Reflections on “Nearly 50 Years Later: The Chicago Fire that Killed Two Deaf Students”
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Reflections on “Nearly 50 Years Later: The Chicago Fire that Killed Two Deaf Students”

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Reflections on “Nearly 50 Years Later: The Chicago Fire that Killed Two Deaf Students”

By Trudy Suggs|2018-01-26T00:11:34-05:00January 26, 2018|

Video description: Trudy Suggs, a white woman with brown shoulder-length hair, is wearing a black cardigan over a black shirt with green and white dots. [...]

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Nearly 50 Years Later: The Chicago Fire that Killed Two Deaf Students (Part 1)
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Nearly 50 Years Later: The Chicago Fire that Killed Two Deaf Students (Part 1)

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Nearly 50 Years Later: The Chicago Fire that Killed Two Deaf Students (Part 1)

By trudy|2018-01-26T00:04:13-05:00January 25, 2018|

Illinois School for the Deaf Main Building (Courtesy of 1969 Illinois Advance) By Trudy Suggs PART 1 (Click here for Part 2) It [...]

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A Quick Look at Everyday Disempowerment of Deaf People
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A Quick Look at Everyday Disempowerment of Deaf People

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A Quick Look at Everyday Disempowerment of Deaf People

By trudy|2016-05-12T11:42:53-05:00May 10, 2016|

This article originally appeared in the Spring 2016 issue of NADmag; download a PDF version of the article. Video description: Trudy, a white woman with shoulder-length [...]

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Giving Credit Where It Wasn’t Due
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Giving Credit Where It Wasn’t Due

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Giving Credit Where It Wasn’t Due

By trudy|2016-03-25T13:06:14-05:00March 25, 2016|

Video description: Trudy, a white woman with shoulder-length brown hair, is wearing a deep royal blue sweater. She is seated in the corner with [...]

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Speech given at a high school in 2015

By trudy|2016-03-25T13:08:15-05:00April 1, 2015|

The following is a speech I gave at a public high school's world languages ceremony in 2015. Read the article I wrote about this [...]

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Remembering Chuck Baird (1947-2012)
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Remembering Chuck Baird (1947-2012)

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Remembering Chuck Baird (1947-2012)

By trudy|2015-02-22T21:03:19-05:00February 22, 2015|

I first met Chuck Baird when I was 10. My parents took me to see King of Hearts, a magnificent production by the National [...]

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Preserving Deaf History in Wax: Don Baer
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Preserving Deaf History in Wax: Don Baer

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Preserving Deaf History in Wax: Don Baer

By trudy|2024-12-02T22:02:55-05:00December 18, 2013|

As I entered the small exhibition area, I jumped in fright. To my right, there was a person blankly staring at me. Don Baer [...]

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Where Have They All Gone?

By trudy|2016-04-06T18:40:42-05:00January 23, 2003|

This originally appeared at NAD's Members-Only website area at www.nad.org. Recently, I was preparing a press release for one of my clients who owns [...]

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