Save Azikiwe-Nkrumah Hall at Lincoln University (PA)!

Please save all historic HBCU structures. We must preserve and conserve our treasures.

Keep this important building for those from the past and for those in the future.

We must find a way to celebrate/preserve our historical uniqueness while striving to maintain a foothold in the present.

Our History Must Be Preserved!!!

We must recclaim all our institutions and punish those who try to destroy them.

I grew up in Lincoln Univ. The building is History, This I Know. Spend the money and do something that has another purpose.

Keep it standing!

I the name National Historic African American Preservation this Landmark must continue it legacy....

12 years ago Featured

A Welcome Center? If you plan on welcoming tourist the retention of the old buildings is a plus. Build the welcome center on vacant land. Retain the character of the campus. I say this on behalf of alumni Heyward Jordan Blackwell, my uncle now deceased, and James Heyward Blackwell, Jr., my grandfather now deceased.

I am a supporter of Lincoln University. So much of the campus has been modernized and that is good but this historic building adds a balance so that future students will know the history and the impressive success of alumni of Lincoln University.

History is meant to be saved not Destroyed.

Save our history!

These historic buildings are a bridge to the past. I have to believe there is a way to build a Wellcome center AND keep the building.

I have signed this petition to show my support in preserving this important piece of Lincoln University history. Modernization and progress are but so are history and legacy.

In the 1950's and early 1960's we let architects from another culture brainwash us (HBCU leaders) into thinking that our buildings were inferior, too expensive to repair and keep up, etc. so we destroyed them with abandon. We considered ourselves learned and progressive. My late mother, an elementary school teacher more than 40 years had another phrase to describe that malady, "educated f----s" (there's no profanity in the second word). It is often said that diseases once thought to be eradicated, often reappear. This outbreak is not limited to SE Pennsylvania. About 4-5 years ago we bulldozed a six-story residence hall because we had obtained funds to build a replacement. Yes the old building (constructed in the late 1960's at the recommendation of these same kind of architects) was in poor condition for the same reason that Azikiwe-Nkrumah Hall is. But somehow the learned scholars did not get the memo that informed the institution that the state funding formula provided $5/sf of space on campus. Not usable space, not cleanable space; space. We'd been convinced to destroy the old space and create "replacement space" for no net increase in funds. We didn't stop there, but happily destroyed an old dining hall and another residence hall and replaced them with new buildings. Our young, highly educated Dir. of Physical Plant (oops, Assoc. VP for Facilities because he has an engineering degree from one of the finest universities in the land) also missed the memo noting that our more well-to-do sister institutions REPURPOSE buildings. Oh I forgot, he's the same guy that said hot water isn't needed to kill germs (nor much soap). How did we repurpose those buildings? The grass covering the ground where the buildings once stood looks beautiful ... . when it's cut. Mom was right! "Educated Fools" We wonder how/why our institutions struggle? How can they NOT struggle!

Save it

Preservation of the historic is essential!

Save this building!

Do not destroy our history! I move that we send the President packing!

GOMAB