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This Day in History: , First African-American College Is Chartered.<br/>April 29, 1854.<br/>Ashmun Institute was <br/>established in southern <br/>Chester County, Pennsylvania.<br/>Created by an act of the <br/>Pennsylvania legislature, the <br/>institution was named after Jehudi Ashman.<br/>Ashman was the U.S. agent <br/>who assisted in the preservation <br/>of an African-American colony in <br/>Africa that later became Liberia.<br/>The institution named after <br/>him was initially chartered to <br/>provide theological, scientific and <br/>classical training to African-Americans.<br/>Under its first college <br/>president, John Pym Carter, <br/>Ashmun Institute opened on January 1, 1857.<br/>It was renamed Lincoln University <br/>in 1866 after the end of the U.S. Civil War
This Day in History: , First African-American College Is Chartered.<br/>April 29, 1854.<br/>Ashmun Institute was <br/>established in southern <br/>Chester County, Pennsylvania.<br/>Created by an act of the <br/>Pennsylvania legislature, the <br/>institution was named after Jehudi Ashman.<br/>Ashman was the U.S. agent <br/>who assisted in the preservation <br/>of an African-American colony in <br/>Africa that later became Liberia.<br/>The institution named after <br/>him was initially chartered to <br/>provide theological, scientific and <br/>classical training to African-Americans.<br/>Under its first college <br/>president, John Pym Carter, <br/>Ashmun Institute opened on January 1, 1857.<br/>It was renamed Lincoln University <br/>in 1866 after the end of the U.S. Civil War
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