Niara Sudarkasa papers, 1980-1993 (bulk 1987-1993).

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Niara Sudarkasa papers, 1980-1993 (bulk 1987-1993).

Items in the collection consist of materials from the inauguration of Niara Sudarkasa as president of Lincoln University.

1.5 linear ft.

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Sudarkasa, Niara

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Anthropologist, educator, and president of Lincoln University; b. Gloria A. Marshall, 1938; married Delmer A. Sudarkasa. From the description of Niara Sudarkasa papers, 1980-1993 (bulk 1987-1993). (Lincoln University, Langston Hughes Memorial Library). WorldCat record id: 83403940 ...

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 ...