Deaf printers once filled America’s newspaper composing rooms
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on October 18, 2022
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Democracy may die in darkness but it once flourished in silence. In the not-too-distant past of the 20th century, deaf printers worked alongside their hearing colleagues to put out The Washington Post, setting type, pasting it down, assembling advertisements and working on the presses.
Because those jobs are gone — obsolesced . . .
