Located about 45 miles southwest of Philadelphia, Lincoln University was founded in April 1854 as Ashmun Institute. As Horace Mann Bond, 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.” Among the schools most notable alumni 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.
