The
Lincoln University (LU) is the United States' 1st degree-granting
historically black university. Founded as a private university in 1854, since 1972 it has been a public institution. It is located near the town of
Oxford in southern
Chester County, Pennsylvania. The university has 2 satellite campuses. They are:
The Lincoln University - University City in
Philadelphia and
The Lincoln University - Coatesville, which opened in the city of
Coatesville in Fall 2013. The Lincoln University provides undergraduate and graduate coursework to approximately 2,500 students. As former president Dr.
Horace Mann Bond noted in his book
Education for Freedom: A History of Lincoln University, Pennsylvania, with the college's founding in 1854, "This was the first institution founded anywhere in the world to provide a higher education in the arts and sciences for youth of African descent." The University is a member-school of
Thurgood Marshall College Fund.
The Lincoln University has numerous notable alumni, including U.S. Supreme Court Justice,
Thurgood Marshall; Harlem Renaissance poet,
Langston Hughes; musical legend,
Cab Calloway;
Medal of Honor winner and pioneering African-American editor
Christian Fleetwood; the first President of
Nigeria,
Nnamdi Azikiwe; the first President of
Ghana,
Kwame Nkrumah; song artist and activist
Gil Scott-Heron; Tony Award-winning actor
Roscoe Lee Browne; Dr.
Robert Walter Johnson, tennis coach of Althea Gibson and Arthur Ashe; and
Melvin B. Tolson, teacher and coach of the debate team portrayed in the film
The Great Debaters. 
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