<Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards . No cleanup reason has been specified . Please help improve this article if you can . (June 2010) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> <P> Deaf President Now (DPN) was a student protest in March 1988 at Gallaudet University, Washington, D.C. The university, established by an act of Congress in 1864 to serve the deaf, had never once been led by a Deaf president since its origination . The protest began on March 6, 1988, when the Board of Trustees announced its decision to appoint a hearing person over other highly qualified Deaf candidates as its seventh president . </P> <P> Gallaudet students, backed by a number of alumni, staff, and faculty, shut down the campus . Protesters barricaded gates, burned effigies, and gave interviews to the press demanding four specific concessions from the Board . The protest ended on March 13, 1988, after all four demands were met including the appointment of I. King Jordan, a deaf person, as university president . </P> <P> Gallaudet University was established in 1864 in Washington, D.C. by Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet's youngest child, Edward Miner Gallaudet . The college grew out of what had been originally a Deaf school for children, which had been established in 1857 . Gallaudet was the world's first university for deaf and hard of hearing students . The historical background, cultural ideologies of the Deaf world, and the richness of the deaf community at this university was what set the stage for the protests that occurred . </P>

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