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Alabama Institute For Deaf And Blind
113 documents for Alabama Institute For Deaf And Blind
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The group's rendition of "Silent Night" featured [Ben Moore], who moved a step behind the beat of the chorus backing him. The carol unfolded with slow, rhythmic intensity as he inflected such words as "sleep," "peace" and "heavenly" before joining his fellow singers in the carol's familiar refrain. [Bishop Billy Bowers] injected raw power into Harry Connick Jr.'s "I Pray on Christmas," and midway through the song released a long, wordless cry. Moore, [Joey Williams] and [McKinnie] sang a moving version of "Amazing Grace" to the chords of "House of the Rising Sun." As the ensemble's deep organ of collective sound propelled Curtis Mayfield's great anthem, "People Get Ready," Williams pierced their harmony with a thrilling falsetto solo. [Jimmy Carter], who seemed to grow younger with each...
... in black suits and bright red vests, the Blind Boys of Alabama took the stage at the Berklee Perf... together as students at the Alabama Institute for the Negro Deaf and Blind (now the Alabama Inst...
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TALLADEGA, Ala. - For more than a decade, shoe salesman Robert Weaver volunteered to teach blind children how to bowl, wrestle and lift weights at the nearby school for the blind. Then, approaching his 50s, he added another skill sign language and organized choral groups and taught Sunday school for deaf and blind students.
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... Talladega Superspeedway in supporting the Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind by helping to raise m...
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...BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA ET AL. v. GARRETT ET AL. CERTIORARI TO THE UNITE... of health administrator because he was blind; similarly, a student at a state university in Sou... was fired because he had epilepsy; deaf workers at the University of Oklahoma were paid a ...00050 Alaska Psychiatric Institute failed to provide interpretive services for deaf p...
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... and universities, public schools for the deaf and blind, including all appropriations to the Alaabama Institute for the Deaf and Blind, public schools for the men...
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Like three of his bandmates in the Grammy-winning Southern gospel group the Blind Boys of Alabama, Jimmy Carter has been blind since childhood. Nevertheless, he's seen a lot in his 70-something years and can recall much of it in a snap. We used to come to Memphis way back in the day when we couldn't stay where we can stay now," says Carter, remembering the times in the 1940s and '50s when WDIA deejay Theo "Bless My Bones" Wade would bring the group to segregated Memphis to perform. "There was two or three black hotels back then, and one was called the Queen Anne, which was not too far from Crump Boulevard. ... But we can stay anywhere now," says Carter, who won't reveal his exact age, pointing out only that he currently lives in Montgomery, Ala., with his 103- year-old mother.
... of the choir at the Talladega (Alabama) Institute for the Deaf and Blind, which Carter and founding ...
