Using photographs and biographies, this book highlights the achievements of some of the most notable graduates from Lincoln University in Missouri. Help us transcribe this book and learn more about the university’s earliest graduates.
Civil War veterans of the 62nd Colored Infantry sought to establish an educational institution that would serve freed African Americans in Missouri and combine a program of study with labor. Lincoln Institute was established in Jefferson City, Missouri, in January of 1866. That same year the school named its first principal, Richard Baxter Foster, a former first lieutenant. In 1870, the school received aid for teacher training from the state of Missouri; the institution quickly expanded to college-level curriculum in 1877 and became a state institution in 1879. The official name would change to Lincoln University in 1921.