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Foster's Roles

1961 Berta & Andrew married

Taught Students

Trained Teachers

Educated the Public

Advised Gov. Officials

Third World Congress of the Deaf (1959)

Weisbaden, German

Met Berta (also Deaf)

by 1972

29+ schools were established

(Including in French speaking Countries in Africa)

Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Ecole Chretienne Ivoirienne pour les Sourds (Christian School for the Deaf Ivorians)

Established Permanent Residential Schools

Helped Establish Schools

Andrew Foster

Deaf School (West Africa) Osu, Ghana.

Ghana Mission School for Deaf

Borrowed classroom from a Presbyterian Church

Liberia's & Nigeria's (1st Deaf School)

Ibadan Mission School for the Deaf (1960)

Ghana Gov. Cabinet Committe (1960)

Seth Tetteh-Ocloo

First Generation Student at Gallaudet

from Ghana Mission School

Gabriel Adepoju

A Year Later (1957)

Both Became National Deaf Leaders (Ghana & Nigeria)

Arrived to Africa

Established Schools

Ezekiel Sambo (Nigeria)

Issac Agboola

His Calling in Life

Deeply Religious Family Background

Jamaican Missionary Inspiration

Andrew (Age 11)

&

his brother were sent off to school

Talladega,Alabama

1950 & 1951

- Detroit Institute of Commerce

Accountancy & Business Admin

Originally Name (1892)

Alabama School for

Negro Deaf-Mutes

High School Diploma

Andrew (16)

Family Moved to Michigan to Due Lack of Opportunities

Andrew and his Sibling Attended

Michigan School for the Deaf

At the Age of 17

8th Grade Education at the Michigan School for the Deaf

For Several Years

Worked for Auto Factories & Restaurants in Chicago and Detroit

Attended Night School

Founded in 1848

Awards

Spinal Meningitis

Rejected From Gallaudet

1962 Man of the Year (Alpha Sigma Pi)

After several rejections Andrew received acceptance from

Gallaudet University

2 Masters

Education (1955)

&

Christian Mission (1956)

How Andrew Became

Bacteria in the Bloodstream Traveling to the Brain & Spinal Cord

1970 Earned an Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters (Gallaudet)

1975 Edward Miner Gallaudet Award (Gallaudet College Alumni Association

1956

National Tours to Fund Raise

Andrew Foster [Age 11] & Brother

Andrew Foster...

1st Black Deaf to be accepted to Gallaudet

1920s US History

Full Scholarship

1954

First Deaf Black to

Graduate from Gallaudet

Roaring Twenties Era

1930s Great Depression

Martin Luther King Jr. (Jan, 1929)

Malcolm X (1925)

Andrew Foster

Dec 1987

Foster Passed Away in an Airplane Crash (Rwanda)

June 27, 1925

African American Descent

Ensley, Alabama

Father Coal Miner

Christian Mission for the Deaf

In Vision of Creating Educational System for the Deaf people in Africa

Father of Deaf Education in Africa

Mirna Cabrera (ASLD 124: Deaf Culture)

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