Lincoln University (Pennsylvania)

Lincoln University (Pennsylvania)   (University)
Motto	"If the Son shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed."
Formation	1854
Headquarters	Pennsylvania, USA
Type	•  State-related •  HBCU
Historically black university in Pennsylvania

Lincoln University (LU) is a state-related public historically black university near Oxford, Pennsylvania. Founded as the private Ashmun Institute in 1854, it has been a public institution since 1972 and was the United States' first degree-granting HBCU. Its main campus is located on 422 acres near the town of Oxford in southern Chester County, Pennsylvania. The university has a second location in University City, Philadelphia. Lincoln University provides undergraduate and graduate coursework to approximately 2,000 students. It is a member-school of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund.

While a majority of its students are African Americans, the university has a long history of accepting students of other races and nationalities. Women have received degrees since 1953, and made up 66% of undergraduate enrollment in 2019.

From 1854 to 1954, Lincoln University graduates accounted for 20% of African American physicians and over 10% of African American lawyers in the United States.

 

Alumni on Wikispooks

Person	Born	Died	Nationality	Summary	Description
Thurgood Marshall	2 July 1908	24 January 1993		Lawyer
Franklin Williams	22 October 1917	20 May 1990	US	Lawyer Civil rights leader	US spooky civil rights leader and diplomat who oversaw the 1966 Ghana coup. Attended Bilderberg/1979.

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