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In this biography of her parents, Maxine Childress Brown pays tribute to the tenacity and dignity with which her mother and father - both of whom were deaf and African American - lived and raised three hearing daughters in Washington, D.C. during the deeply segregated decades of the mid-twentieth century. ""On the Beat of Truth"" is a stunning personal history, reflecting upon the complex struggles encountered at the tenuous intersection of race and disability.

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Maxine Childress Brown, a child of deaf parents, understands how lack of education and access affects the opportunities available to deaf families. Her candid and poignant memoir reminds us that the deaf community s achievements in the struggle for equal recognition, rights, and self-determination owe a debt of gratitude to those who came before us. I am delighted to recommend her book.--Gerard Buckley, President, National Technical Institute for the Deaf

Maxine Childress Brown, a child of deaf parents, understands how lack of education and access affects the opportunities available to deaf families. Her candid and poignant memoir reminds us that the deaf community's achievements in the struggle for equal recognition, rights, and self-determination owe a debt of gratitude to those who came before us. I am delighted to recommend her book.--Gerard Buckley, President, National Technical Institute for the Deaf

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Maxine Childress Brown is an interpreter for the deaf, certified by the Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf, and a former assistant professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology, New York, and SUNY Geneseo.

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