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
