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Lincoln University, founded by Black soldiers
1866
Jefferson City, Missouri
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Men of the 62nd and 65th United States Colored Infantry, still in uniform in Texas at the end of the war, put up more than six thousand dollars out of their own pay to found a school for freed people in Missouri. Their officers added to it. It opened in an old building in Jefferson City with two students and is a university now.
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