List of Lincoln University (Pennsylvania) alumni
- List of Lincoln University (Pennsylvania) alumni
This list of Lincoln University alumni includes graduates, non-graduate former students and current students of Lincoln University. Lincoln University is a historically black university (HBCU). [citeweb|url=http://www.ed.gov/about/inits/list/whhbcu/edlite-list.html|title=List of HBCUs -- White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities|date=2007-08-16|accessdate=2008-01-03] ]
Lincoln University has many notable alumni, including Thurgood Marshall, Langston Hughes, Hildrus Poindexter, Horace Mann Bond, Roscoe Lee Browne, Robert L. Carter, Nnamdi Azikiwe, Kwame Nkrumah, and Melvin B. Tolson. Many of Langston Hughes' papers reside in the Langston Hughes Memorial Library on campus.
Nnamdi Azikiwe and Kwame Nkrumah were the first President/Prime Minister of Nigeria and Ghana respectively, fulfilling John Miller Dickey's vision of Lincoln University as a training institution for African leadership. At least 10 of its alumni have served as United States ambassadors or mission chiefs. Many are federal, state and municipal judges, and many others have served as mayors or city managers.
Lincoln University alumni have held key leadership positions at more than 35 colleges and universities and scores of prominent churches.Fact|date=February 2007 South Carolina State University, Livingstone College, Albany State University, Texas Southern University, Ibeme Memorial College (Nigeria), Ibibio State College (Nigeria), and Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (Ghana) were all founded by Lincoln alumni.
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