By Rayna Reid Rayford ·Updated April 29, 2024
Lincoln University, the first ever degree-granting HBCU was founded on this day, 170 years ago.
Rev. John Miller Dickey and his wife Sarah Emlen Cressen were providing philanthropy to Black members of their community. It all started in 1853, after Dickey encountered resistance when trying to help James Amos, who was a free man, enroll in schools to become a minister. And “when no one
