On April 29th, 1854, Lincoln University, located near Oxford, Pennsylvania, received its charter as "an institution of learning for the scientific, classical and theological education of colored youth of the male sex", becoming the first degree-granting Black college in the country.
On April 29, 1854, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania granted a charter to Ashmun Institute, which in 1866 would become renamed after President Lincoln, to what is now known as Lincoln University.
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