This Day in History: First African-American College Is Chartered
This Day in History: , First African-American College Is Chartered.
April 29, 1854.
Ashmun Institute was
established..
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John Pym Carter was an American Presbyterian minister and educator who served as the second president of the Ashmun Institute, which became Lincoln University, a historically black university in Oxford, Pennsylvania. He served from October 8, 1856, to 1861. He concurrently served as the sole faculty member and instructor, providing a general college education as well as seminary training to prepare his students for Presbyterian ordination and missionary work.
This Day in History: , First African-American College Is Chartered.
April 29, 1854.
Ashmun Institute was
established..