Remembering the first Black Deaf woman to graduate from Gallaudet

Ida Gray Hampton graduated from Gallaudet College in 1957. Some events in the life of Ida Gray Hampton: Born Nov. 13, 1935 in Richmond, Virginia. She had six brothers and sisters. Her family moved to Conemaugh Township in Pennsylvania when she was three years old. Hampton became deaf around the age of 14. She attended Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf in Pittsburgh and graduated in 1952. Later than year, she entered Gallaudet College (then known as Columbia Institution for the Deaf)....