T. M. Alexander; poet and playwright Angelina Weld Grimké; actor Malcolm-Jamal Warner; actress Leslie Uggams and actress Wendy Williams. Lincoln University has alumni who founded the following six colleges and universities in the United States and abroad: South Carolina State University (Thomas E. Miller), Livingstone College (Joseph Charles Price), Albany State University (Joseph Winthrop Holley), Allen University (William Decker Johnson), Texas Southern University (Raphael O'Hara Lanier), Ibibio State College (Nigeria) (Ibanga Akpabio) and the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (Ghana) (King Osei Tutu). Lincoln University has two alumni honored with commemorative stamps by the United States Postal Service: Thurgood Marshall (BA 1930) and Langston Hughes (BA 1929). Notable staff John Aubrey Davis, Sr., professor of political science (1949–53) James Farmer, civil rights activist Philip S. Foner, historian, educator, and activist Charles V. Hamilton, political scientist, educator, and civil rights activist Irv Mondschein, track, basketball, and football coach Doug Overton, men's basketball head coach (2016–2020), former NBA point guard Fritz Pollard, football coach (1918–20), first African-American NFL coach Notes A.Founder and President of the Board of Trustees, Ashmun Institute and Lincoln University B.First alumni president and first Black president References Further reading Horace Mann Bond, Education For Freedom, Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1976 Fred Jerome, The Einstein File, George Bogue Carr, William Parker Finney, John Miller Dickey, D.D.: his life and times, Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1929 Fred Jerome, The Einstein File, New York: St. Martin's Press, 2002 Martin Kilson, The Afro-Americanization of Lincoln University: Horace Mann Bond's Legacy, 1845–1957, Lincoln University, PA: Lincoln University Press, 2007 Martin Kilson, The Changing Life & Times of Lincoln University 1854–2012, Lincoln University, PA: Lincoln University Press, 2012 Levi Akalazu Nwachuku, Judith A. W Thomas, Exploring the African American Experience, Boston: Pearson, 2011 Levi Akalazu Nwachuku, Martin Kilson, Pride of Lions: A History of Lincoln University, 1945–2007, Lincoln University, PA: Lincoln University Press, 2011 Marianne H. Russo, Paul Anthony Russo, Hinsonville, A Community at the Crossroads: the story of a 19th-century African-American village, Selingsgrove, PA: Susquehanna University Press, 2005, Authority control ISNI: 0000 0004 0420 5871 External links Lincoln Athletics website National Register of Historic Places in Chester County, Pennsylvania Historically black universities and colleges in the United States Commonwealth System of Higher Education Educational institutions established in 1854 Universities and colleges in Chester County, Pennsylvania Census-designated places in Chester County, Pennsylvania Census-designated places in Pennsylvania 1854 establishments in Pennsylvania Antebellum