African Center Program records, 1963-1970.

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African Center Program records, 1963-1970.

The collection consists of correspondence and files of the Lincoln University's African Center Program.

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Lincoln University (Pa.). African Center Program

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Ashmun Institute was founded in 1854 by John Miller Dickey, a Presbyterian minister, with the purpose of preparing freedmen to christianize Africa; named after Jehudi Ashmun, the first governor of Liberia, it was the first college established in the U.S. to have as its original purpose the higher education of youth of African descent; interracial and international; renamed Lincoln University in 1866, becoming the first educational institution named for the assassinated president. African Center ...