Tell the LU Board of Trustees to Consider the Proposed Lincoln University Historic District!
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Vivian Sye-payne
12 years ago
I am not an alumnus but was admitted to the first class of women. Although I was unable to attend I love Lincoln and its legacy.
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Anthony B.Hill
12 years ago
Friend of Lincoln University
Supporter of the LU historical buildings
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adrienne Beard
12 years ago
I urge the board of trustees to seriously consider this proposal as well as the expressed concerns of the collective alumni.
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Carol Black
· petition starter
12 years ago
These 15 historic buildings are not only our history and legacy but are national treasures of a movement begun at Lincoln University and led to the beginning of all historically black colleges and universities in America, when the opportunity for higher education for descendants of slaves and freedmen was legally unattainable in most states until the Supreme Court spoke in Brown v. Board of Education in 1954. These 15 historic buildings on the campus of Lincoln University tell the story of Jehudi Ashmun, James and Thomas Amos, John Miller Dickey, The Underground Railroad, the founders, the first trustees and faculty, the Miller, Cresson and Emlen families, the Rendalls, the Draper and Walls families, the 19th century Black Village of Hinsonville that would become Ashmun Institute and later Lincoln University, Christian Fleetwood, the Christiana Slave Rebellion, the Grimke brothers, the Mossell family, the Parker Sisters Kidnapping, Nnamdi Azikiwe, Kwame Nkrumah, Thurgood Marshall, Langston Hughes and every student, professor and staff who ever tread on our sacred soil!!! Please help to save them!
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Barbara Crittenden Baber
12 years ago
I am a Friend of The Lincoln University having served on the faculty and administrative staff from 1976-1989. Lincoln is dear to my heart, and I whole-heartedly support this initiative!
I am not an alumnus but was admitted to the first class of women. Although I was unable to attend I love Lincoln and its legacy.
Friend of Lincoln University Supporter of the LU historical buildings
I urge the board of trustees to seriously consider this proposal as well as the expressed concerns of the collective alumni.
These 15 historic buildings are not only our history and legacy but are national treasures of a movement begun at Lincoln University and led to the beginning of all historically black colleges and universities in America, when the opportunity for higher education for descendants of slaves and freedmen was legally unattainable in most states until the Supreme Court spoke in Brown v. Board of Education in 1954. These 15 historic buildings on the campus of Lincoln University tell the story of Jehudi Ashmun, James and Thomas Amos, John Miller Dickey, The Underground Railroad, the founders, the first trustees and faculty, the Miller, Cresson and Emlen families, the Rendalls, the Draper and Walls families, the 19th century Black Village of Hinsonville that would become Ashmun Institute and later Lincoln University, Christian Fleetwood, the Christiana Slave Rebellion, the Grimke brothers, the Mossell family, the Parker Sisters Kidnapping, Nnamdi Azikiwe, Kwame Nkrumah, Thurgood Marshall, Langston Hughes and every student, professor and staff who ever tread on our sacred soil!!! Please help to save them!
I am a Friend of The Lincoln University having served on the faculty and administrative staff from 1976-1989. Lincoln is dear to my heart, and I whole-heartedly support this initiative!