Start Date
10/29/2025
End Date
10/29/2025
Description
Find out how the fascinating stories of two significant twentieth-century student uprisings are told today at the landscapes in which they took place. This session will explore how events at two American universities led to fundamental changes in leadership and how these events are interpreted online and on-site today.
Student protests at Fisk University in Nashville, TN (1924-25) not only ousted the president, but paved the way (slightly more than a generation later) for the appointment of the university’s first African American president. Decades later, in 1988, students at Gallaudet in Washington, D.C. protested the appointment of a hearing president with little knowledge of sign language. The “Deaf President Now” movement resulted in the appointment of a Gallaudet alumnus, I. King Jordan, as the institution’s president.
Moderated by Maura Rockcastle, Principal and Co-Founder of the landscape architecture firm TEN x TEN and member of The Cultural Landscape Foundation’s (TCLF) Board of Directors, the free webinar will also make visible the efforts of Louise B. Miller, who led the fight for educational justice for African American deaf children during the era of segregation.
This program is associated with TCLF's report and digital exhibition Landslide: Demonstration Grounds about public protest sites that shaped American attitudes and ideals.
Distance Learning
Yes
Course Equivalency
No
Subjects
Historic Preservation
Health, Safety and Welfare
Yes
Hours
1.25
Learning Outcomes
- Identify physical conditions and historical contexts that can inform present-day planning and design solutions.
- Learn ways that landscape architects can work with communities to make visible and instill value for these historic resources.
- Determine tools to better define the integrity and significance of cultural landscapes that have been subjected to erasure.
Instructors
Maura Rockcastle, ASLA; Evon J. Black - Associate Director of Gallaudet University’s Center for Black Deaf Studies; Dr. Crystal A. DeGregory - Associate professor; Robbie D. Jones - Principal senior architectural historian
Course Codes
Provider
Victor Stanley, Inc.