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Andrew Foster (educator)
American pioneer of deaf education (1925–1987)
Andrew Jackson Foster | |
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Teacher, pioneer of deaf education in Africa. | |
| Born | (1925-06-27)June 27, 1925 Ensley, Alabama |
| Died | December 3, 1987(1987-12-03) (aged 62) Rwanda |
Andrew Jackson Foster (1925–1987) was an American pioneer of deaf education in several countries in Africa.
Andrew foster biography
In 1954, he became the first Deaf African American to earn a bachelor's degree from Gallaudet University, the American university for the Deaf, and the first to earn a master's degree from Eastern Michigan University. He earned a second master's degree from Seattle Pacific Christian College (now Seattle Pacific University), also in education.
He founded Christian Mission for the Deaf African in 1956 and set out for Accra, Ghana, where he established the first school for the deaf in West Africa.
Early life and education
Andrew Foster was born on June 27, 1925, in the small mining town of Ensley, Alabama