Lincoln University, PA

at 1570 Baltimore Pike, Oxford , 19352 United States

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<p>The <b>Lincoln University</b> is the United States' first degree-granting <a href="/pages/w/111740148838222">historically black university</a>. Founded as a private university in 1854, since 1972 it has been a public institution. It is located near the town of <a href="/pages/w/112778302070117">Oxford</a> in southern <a href="/pages/w/113562451990861">Chester County, Pennsylvania</a>. The university has two satellite campuses. They are: <i>The Lincoln University - University City</i> in <a href="/pages/w/106057446092618">Philadelphia</a> and <i>The Lincoln University - Coatesville</i>, which opened in the city of <a href="/pages/w/108266769201159">Coatesville</a> in Fall 2013. The Lincoln University provides undergraduate and graduate coursework to approximately 2,500 students. As former president Dr. <a href="/pages/w/135521469814003">Horace Mann Bond</a> noted in his book <i>Education for Freedom: A History of Lincoln University, Pennsylvania</i>, with the college's founding in 1854, "This was the first institution founded anywhere in the world to provide a higher education in the arts and sciences for youth of African descent." The University is a member-school of <a href="/pages/w/103112933063043">Thurgood Marshall College Fund</a>.</p><p>The Lincoln University has numerous notable alumni, including U.S. Supreme Court Justice, <a href="/pages/w/113860655294045">Thurgood Marshall</a>; Harlem Renaissance poet, <a href="/pages/w/107822642573798">Langston Hughes</a>; musical legend, <a href="/pages/w/109421269076271">Cab Calloway</a>; <a href="/pages/w/106601919379894">Medal of Honor</a> winner and pioneering African-American editor <a href="/pages/w/104053102965104">Christian Fleetwood</a>; the first President of <a href="/pages/w/107504222612764">Nigeria</a>, <a href="/pages/w/103779719660919">Nnamdi Azikiwe</a>; the first President of <a href="/pages/w/109060342446769">Ghana</a>, <a href="/pages/w/112155995467516">Kwame Nkrumah</a>; song artist and activist <a href="/pages/w/109770995715530">Gil Scott-Heron</a>; Tony Award-winning actor <a href="/pages/w/106086072755479">Roscoe Lee Browne</a>; Dr. <a href="/pages/w/106142182750564">Robert Walter Johnson</a>, tennis coach of Althea Gibson and Arthur Ashe; and <a href="/pages/w/112207372124961">Melvin B. Tolson</a>, teacher and coach of the debate team portrayed in the film <i><a href="/pages/w/104061242964880">The Great Debaters</a></i>,.</p>

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Lincoln University, PA is Oxford based place and this enity listed in College & University category. Located at 1570 Baltimore Pike PA 19352.