Commencements and special events records, 1871-1993.

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Commencements and special events records, 1871-1993.

Materials associated with special events including commencement; baccalaureate service; lectures and recitals; and honorary degree recipients including some of their addresses.

1.5 linear ft.

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Lincoln University, Pa.

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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; first recorded ...

Langston Hughes Cultural Arts Festival

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Abdul, Raoul.

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Journalist, secretary to Langston Hughes. From the description of Reminiscences of Raoul Abdul : oral history, 1975. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309722490 ...