Dr. Skinner's remarkable school for "colored deaf, dumb, and blind children," 1857-1860
By: James M. Boles and Michael Boston
Contributors: Boston, Michael B.; Museum of disABILITY History; School for the Instruction of the Colored Deaf, Dumb, and Blind (New York (State))
Series: Abandoned history series
Publisher: People Ink Press in association with Museum of disABILITY Museum
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Buffalo, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 37
ISBN-13: 9780984598304
Subjects: School superintendents; School for the Instruction of the Colored Deaf, Dumb, and Blind (New York (State)); African-Americans; Deaf; Education; History
Description: "Just before the Civil War, Dr. Platt H. Skinner, a pioneer educator of the disabled, operated three schools for African-American children who were blind, deaf, or both.  An ardent abolitionist, Dr. Skinner was forced to move his school twice.  The second school, the subject of this book, was located in Suspension Bridge, New York at a terminus of the Underground Railroad, on which Dr. Skinner may have been a conductor..." -- Book cover.
Notes: Includes a reproduction of the first semi-annual report of the School for the Instruction of the Colored Deaf, Dumb, and Blind located at Niagara City, Suspension Bridge, New York, published by Dr. Skinner in 1858.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 37).