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Lincoln University
Lincoln University of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania was chartered in April
1854 as Ashmun Institute. As Horace Mann Bond, '23, the eighth president of
Lincoln University, so eloquently cites in the opening chapter of his book,
Education for Freedom, this was "the first institution found anywhere in the
world to provide a higher education in the arts and sciences for male youth of
African descent." The story of Lincoln University goes back to the early years
of the 19th century and to the ancestors of its founder, John Miller Dickey, and
his wife, Sarah Emlen Cresson. The Institute was renamed Lincoln University in
1866 after President Abraham Lincoln.
Lincoln is surrounded by the rolling farmlands and wooded hilltops of southern
Chester County, Pennsylvania. Its campus is conveniently located on Baltimore
Pike, about one mile off US Route 1 – 45 miles southwest of Philadelphia, 15
miles northwest of Newark, Delaware, 25 miles west of Wilmington, Delaware, and
55 miles north of Baltimore, Maryland.
Since its inception, Lincoln has attracted an interracial and international
enrollment from the surrounding community, region, and around the world. The
University admitted women students in 1952, and formally associated with the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in 1972 as a state-related, coeducational
university. Lincoln currently enrolls approximately 2,000 students.
Located in southern Chester County, Lincoln is accredited by the Middle States
Association of Colleges and Schools and offers academic programs in
undergraduate study in the arts, sciences as well as graduate programs in human
services, reading, education, mathematics, and administration. The University is
proud of its faculty for the high quality of their teaching, research, and
service, and of its alumni, among the most notable of whom are: Langston Hughes,
'29, world-acclaimed poet; Thurgood Marshall, '30, first African-American
Justice of the US Supreme Court; Hildrus A. Poindexter, '24, internationally
known authority on tropical diseases; Roscoe Lee Browne, '46, author and widely
acclaimed actor of stage and screen; Jacqueline Allen, '74, judge for the Court
of Common Pleas, Philadelphia; and Eric C. Webb, '91, author, poet and
editor-in-chief of Souls of People.
Many of Lincoln's international graduates have gone on to become outstanding
leaders in their countries, including Nnamdi Azikiwe, '30, Nigeria's first
president; Kwame Nkrumah, '39, first president of Ghana; Rev. James Robinson,
'35, founder of Crossroads Africa, which served as the model for the Peace
Corps; and Sibusio Nkomo, Ph.D., '81, chairperson, National Policy Institute of
South Africa.
During the first one hundred years of its existence, Lincoln graduated
approximately 20 percent of the Black physicians and more than 10 percent of the
Black attorneys in the United States. Its alumni have headed over 35 colleges
and universities and scores of prominent churches. At least 10 of its alumni
have served as United States ambassadors or mission chiefs. Many are federal,
state and municipal judges, and several have served as mayors or city managers.
Website: http://www.lincoln.edu/
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