Andrew Jackson Foster was the first African American to get a bachelor's degree from Gallaudet University. He was also the first African American to earn a master's degree from Eastern Megan University. He used this education to provide Deaf education in many countries in Africa. He was born On June 27th, 1925. When he was about eleven, he and his brother got spinal meningitis, which caused both of them to become deaf. In the years following, He received six years of Education At the Alabama School of coloured death people. He would have had more but during that time racial segregation was still going on in Alabama, so any African American could not get more than six years of education. He moved to Michigan and got two more years of schooling while living with his Aunt. Then, he took classes with the American Correspondence School while working multiple jobs. A short time after the war, Eric Malzkuhn, who was a teacher at Gallaudet University, told him on multiple accounts that he should attend Gallaudet University He attempted multiple times but was rejected because of his race. He received a diploma to be an accountant in 1950 and high school diploma from The American School in Chicago. After earning these awards, Gallaudet University finally accepted him. He then moved to Africa and started preaching about God and the ways that he helped him through the tough times of being a deaf African American. He died on December 3, 1987, at age 62.
