List of Lincoln University (Pennsylvania) Alumni (67 items)report

• [Name]: Ebenezer Ako-Adjei
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  [Notability]: Ghanaian politician, member of the United Gold Coast Convention and The Big Six
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• [Name]: Walter G. Alexander
  [Class year]: 1899
  [Notability]: first African American to serve in the New Jersey Legislature
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• [Name]: Charles E. Anderson
  [Class year]: 1941
  [Notability]: first African American to earn a Ph.D. in Meteorology
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• [Name]: Nnamdi Azikiwe
  [Class year]: 1930
  [Notability]: first President of Nigeria
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• [Name]: Harry W. Bass
  [Class year]: 1888
  [Notability]: first African American elected to the Pennsylvania General Assembly in 1910
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• [Name]: A.A. Birch, Jr.
  [Class year]: 1952
  [Notability]: first African-American to serve as Chief Justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court
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• [Name]: Donald Bogle
  [Class year]: 1966
  [Notability]: film historian, author, educator
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• [Name]: Horace Mann Bond
  [Class year]: 1923
  [Notability]: educator, scholar; first African-American and alumnus to become President of Lincoln University
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• [Name]: Oscar Brown, Jr.
  [Class year]: 1940
  [Notability]: singer, actor, playwright, director
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• [Name]: Roscoe Lee Browne
  [Class year]: 1946
  [Notability]: actor, former 800-meters record holder
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• [Name]: Isaac D. Burrell
  [Class year]: 1890
  [Notability]: physician and pharmacist
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• [Name]: Maria Louisa Bustill
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  [Notability]: teacher and mother of Paul Robeson
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• [Name]: Cab Calloway
  [Class year]: 1930
  [Notability]: entertainer, bandleader
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• [Name]: Robert L. Carter
  [Class year]: 1937
  [Notability]: general counsel of the NAACP, United States District Judge
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• [Name]: Frank "Tick" Coleman
  [Class year]: 1935
  [Notability]: educator
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• [Name]: Alexander Darnes
  [Class year]: 1876
  [Notability]: born into slavery, owned by Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith; second African-American physician in Florida
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• [Name]: Lillian E. Fishburne
  [Class year]: 1971
  [Notability]: first African American woman promoted to the rank of rear admiral in the U.S. Navy
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• [Name]: Christian Fleetwood
  [Class year]: 1860
  [Notability]: served in the Union Army during the American Civil War, earned the Medal of Honor
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• [Name]: William Fontaine
  [Class year]: 1930
  [Notability]: philosopher
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• [Name]: Marcus A Griffith
  [Class year]: 1993
  [Notability]: Councilman; Mount Vernon, NY
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• [Name]: Archibald H. Grimke
  [Class year]: 1870
  [Notability]: lawyer, journalist, public speaker, member of the Niagara Movement
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• [Name]: Francis J. Grimké
  [Class year]: 1870
  [Notability]: Pastor of the 15th Street Presbyterian Church in Washington, D.C., member of the Niagara Movement
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• [Name]: Joseph Winthrop Holley
  [Class year]: 1897
  [Notability]: founder of Albany State College
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• [Name]: William E. Holmes
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  [Notability]: former President of Central City College, faculty of the Atlanta Baptist Institute, now Morehouse College for 25 years.
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• [Name]: Langston Hughes
  [Class year]: 1929
  [Notability]: poet
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• [Name]: Roderick L. Ireland
  [Class year]: 1966
  [Notability]: first African American associate justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
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• [Name]: Montford "Monte" Irvin
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  [Notability]: New York Giants player; inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1973
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• [Name]: Pee Wee Kirkland
  [Class year]: 2000
  [Notability]: former street basketball player from New York City; played at Rucker Park in the 1970 and 1971 seasons
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• [Name]: Brian Jackson
  [Class year]: 1973
  [Notability]: keyboardist, writer
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• [Name]: Robert Walter "Whirlwind" Johnson
  [Class year]: 1924
  [Notability]: physician, educator, tennis instructor to Althea Gibson and Arthur Ashe
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• [Name]: Saara Kuugongelwa
  [Class year]: 1994
  [Notability]: Namibian politician, Prime Minister of Namibia
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• [Name]: Robert Lee
  [Class year]: 1941
  [Notability]: South Carolina-born dentist who emigrated to Ghana in 1956 and operated a dental practice there for nearly five decades until his retirement in 2002
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• [Name]: Thurgood Marshall
  [Class year]: 1930
  [Notability]: first African-American Supreme Court Justice
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• [Name]: Thomas E. Miller
  [Class year]: 1872
  [Notability]: South Carolina Congressman; first President of South Carolina State University (1896–1911)
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• [Name]: Joseph Miró
  [Class year]: 1970
  [Notability]: politician, member of the Delaware House of Representatives from the 22nd district
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• [Name]: Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr.
  [Class year]: 1932
  [Notability]: NAACP lobbyist ("101st U.S. Senator"), civil rights leader
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• [Name]: Aaron Albert Mossell
  [Class year]: 1885
  [Notability]: attorney, first African American to graduate from the University of Pennsylvania School of Law
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• [Name]: Nathan Francis Mossell
  [Class year]: 1879
  [Notability]: physician, first African American to graduate from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
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• [Name]: Larry Neal
  [Class year]: 1961
  [Notability]: Black Arts Movement leader in the 1960s
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• [Name]: Robert N.C. Nix, Sr.
  [Class year]: 1921
  [Notability]: first African American elected to Congress from Pennsylvania
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• [Name]: Kwame Nkrumah
  [Class year]: 1939
  [Notability]: first President of the modern Ghana
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• [Name]: Sheila Y. Oliver
  [Class year]: 1974
  [Notability]: first African American woman Speaker of the New Jersey General Assembly
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• [Name]: Barrington D. Parker
  [Class year]: 1936
  [Notability]: U.S. Court of Appeals Justice
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• [Name]: Brigadier General Harold E. Pierce
  [Class year]: 1942
  [Notability]: dermatologist and cosmetic surgeon
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• [Name]: Fayette Pinkney
  [Class year]: 1984
  [Notability]: singer, one of the original members of the group The Three Degrees
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• [Name]: Hildrus Poindexter
  [Class year]: 1924
  [Notability]: bacteriologist; head of Howard University Medical School in 1934
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• [Name]: Edward S. Porter
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  [Notability]: physician
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• [Name]: Dr. Joseph C. Price
  [Class year]: 1879
  [Notability]: founder of Livingstone College
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• [Name]: William Drew Robeson I
  [Class year]: 1876
  [Notability]: minister, father of Paul Robeson
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• [Name]: James H. Robinson
  [Class year]: 1935
  [Notability]: founder of Operation Crossroads Africa (a model for the Peace Corps); Chapters 8, 9 and 10 of Robinson's 1950 autobiography, Road Without Turning, describe life at Lincoln in the early 1930s
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• [Name]: Joseph H. Saunders
  [Class year]: 1941
  [Notability]: Mathematics professor UDC
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• [Name]: Gil Scott-Heron
  [Class year]: attended, early 1970s
  [Notability]: activist, singer-songwriter
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• [Name]: Dr. Abdulalim A. Shabazz
  [Class year]: 1949
  [Notability]: Professor of Mathematics, Chairman of the Mathermatics and Computer Science Department at Lincoln University (Pennsylvania) from 1998 to 2000
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• [Name]: Francis Cecil Sumner
  [Class year]: 1915
  [Notability]: father of Black psychology; first African American to receive a Ph.D in psychology
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• [Name]: Wilbert "Bill" Tatum
  [Class year]: 1958
  [Notability]: Publisher Emeritus of The New York Amsterdam News
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• [Name]: Clive Terrelonge
  [Class year]: 1994
  [Notability]: Olympic track and field athlete from Jamaica
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• [Name]: Mose Penaani Tjitendero
  [Class year]: 1968
  [Notability]: Namibian politician; former Speaker of the National Assembly of Namibia ;Chairman, SWAPO Central Committee
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• [Name]: Tjama Tjivikua
  [Class year]: 1983
  [Notability]: Vice-Chancellor of the Namibia University of Science and Technology
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• [Name]: Melvin B. Tolson
  [Class year]: 1924
  [Notability]: poet, educator, columnist, and politician
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• [Name]: James L. Usry
  [Class year]: 1946
  [Notability]: first African American Mayor of Atlantic City, New Jersey
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• [Name]: Joseph Cornelius Waddy
  [Class year]: 1935
  [Notability]: Federal Judge
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• [Name]: Herb J. Wesson Jr.
  [Class year]: 1999
  [Notability]: Speaker of the California State Assembly
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• [Name]: Albert H. Wheeler
  [Class year]: 1936
  [Notability]: first African American Mayor of Ann Arbor, Michigan
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• [Name]: Boyce Courtney Williams
  [Class year]: 1974
  [Notability]: Vice President of National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education
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• [Name]: Franklin Williams
  [Class year]: 1941
  [Notability]: diplomat; former president of Phelps Stokes Fund; former Assistant Attorney General of California
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• [Name]: Bruce M. Wright
  [Class year]: 1942
  [Notability]: judge in New York and Connecticut, author of Black Robes, White Justice
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• [Name]: Phillip Banks III
  [Class year]: 1984
  [Notability]: first African-American Chief of Department of the New York Police Department
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