Lincoln University, The First HBCU Chartered April 29, 1854 

"On April 29, 1854, Lincoln University becomes the nation’s first historically Black degree-granting institution of higher education.

Located in Pennsylvania and originally founded as the Ashmun Institute, the university was renamed in 1866 in honor of President Abraham Lincoln, revered among African Americans for his 1863 decree to emancipate the nation’s millions of enslaved people. Founder John Miller Dickey, who was white, had long been involved in the ministry, and with the help of his wife Sarah Emlen Cressen, provided philanthropic services to African Americans in the community."   Visit History.com website for the full view 

— History.com Editors. "Lincoln University First HBCU Chartered." History.com, A&E Television Networks, 2024, https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/lincoln-university-first-hbcu-chartered.