Lincoln Institute in Jefferson City becomes the first higher education institution in Missouri for freed African Americans, starting with a class of two students. Soldiers and officers of the 62nd US Colored Infantry envisioned the college, which relocated to its present home in 1870.
Photo credit: Garner Essex
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