John Ballard Rendall records, 1895-1926 (bulk 1906-1926).

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John Ballard Rendall records, 1895-1926 (bulk 1906-1926).

Records relating to John Ballard Rendall, president of Lincoln University, 1906-1926.

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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 ...

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