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Article title -- Platt Skinner
Article Evaluation -- Platt Skinner is referenced in the Black ASL page, and linked despite not yet having an article created. He is the founder of the Skinner School for the Colored Deaf, Dumb, and Blind.
Sources
Boston, M. (2005). Dr. PH Skinner: Controversial Educator of the Deaf, Blind and Mute, and Niagara Falls, New York Abolitionist. Afro-Americans in New York Life and History, 29(2), 45.
Peruzzi, Meredith. (2014). Platt H. Skinner and the Founding of Gallaudet University. https://media.gallaudet.edu/media/150+SymposiumA+Gallaudet+-+The+Early+Years/1_yh9nridd/67002951 Retrieved February 12, 2021
Sayers, E. E. (2020). White Nation, Black Deportation, Deaf Education: The Agenda of the Founders of Sign Language Education in the United States. American Annals of the Deaf, 165(2), 136-156.

Article title -- Louise B. Miller/ Miller v. Board of Education of District of Columbia
Article Evaluation -- At present, no article exists for Louise B. Miller nor Miller v. Board of Education of District of Columbia. The case is mentioned in one sentence on the Kendall Demonstration Elementary School , however, no details outline the circumstances leading up to and through the case are provided. This case preceded the Brown v. Board of Education case , which deemed racial segregation unconstitutional, by two years. The Miller v. Board of Education, was the first to challenge the precedent set by Plessy v. Ferguson, a case which permitted "separate but equal" facilities.

Sources
DC Historic Preservation Office, “Civil Rights Tour: Education - Louise Burrell Miller and Deaf Education,” DC Historic Sites, accessed February 13, 2021, https://historicsites.dcpreservation.org/items/show/953.
Jowers-Barber, S. (2014). The Struggle to Educate Black Deaf Schoolchildren in Washington, DC. A fair chance in the race of life: The role of Gallaudet university in Deaf history, 113-31.
Miller v. Board of Education of District of Columbia, 106 F. Supp. 988 (D.D.C. 1952) https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/106/988/1649337/ Retrieved February 12, 2021

Article title -- Linwood Smith
Article Evaluation -- Article does not yet exist, however Smith is referenced on the National Black Deaf Advocates page as one of six founders. Smith was a school counselor at the North Carolina School for the Deaf. He co-authored "Black and Deaf in AMerica: Are We That Different" with Ernest Hairston. Smith also advocated for mental health services for the deaf.
Sources
Bowe, F. G. (2019). Educational, Psychological, and Occupational Aspects of the Nonwhite Deaf Population. JADARA, 5(3). Retrieved from https://repository.wcsu.edu/jadara/vol5/iss3/9
Nielsen, A. L. (2011). KID CREOLE AND HIS BEAU-COCONAUTS: LLOYD ADDISON’S ASTRO-BLACK INFINITIES. Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses, 62, 15-30.
Washington Post (1982, November 19). Linwood D. Smith, therapist for deaf at St. Elizabeths, Dies. Retrieved February 24, 2021, from https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1982/11/19/linwood-d-smith-therapist-for-deaf-at-st-elizabeths-dies/8243f299-e4cc-403d-87aa-3f778b8756b0/