Genevieve Caldwell was born to parents, William Alexander Caldwell Sr. and Mary Samuels. She married William Whitehead, the first Black Superintendent of Virginia School for the Deaf and Blind at Hampton. She carried her Deaf father's legacy by teaching Deaf Education with the Black students both at Knoxville, Tennessee's and Virginia's segregated Deaf schools. William, her father was the nation's first known Black Deaf teacher who met Genevieve's mother at Cave Spring, Georgia where her father taught before the family moved to Raleigh, North Carolina then Florida's segregated Deaf School, where her father was also the first nation known Black Deaf principal. She passed away in District of Columbia where she was buried, possibly unmarked at Lincoln Memorial Cemetery - according to the newspaper clipping, Daily Press, November 29, 1988, page 16.
Genevieve Caldwell was born to parents, William Alexander Caldwell Sr. and Mary Samuels. She married William Whitehead, the first Black Superintendent of Virginia School for the Deaf and Blind at Hampton. She carried her Deaf father's legacy by teaching Deaf Education with the Black students both at Knoxville, Tennessee's and Virginia's segregated Deaf schools. William, her father was the nation's first known Black Deaf teacher who met Genevieve's mother at Cave Spring, Georgia where her father taught before the family moved to Raleigh, North Carolina then Florida's segregated Deaf School, where her father was also the first nation known Black Deaf principal. She passed away in District of Columbia where she was buried, possibly unmarked at Lincoln Memorial Cemetery - according to the newspaper clipping, Daily Press, November 29, 1988, page 16.
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