Mosley, John W

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Pictured is Kwame Nkrumah (shaking hands in dark suit) and Horace Mann Bond (left of Nkrumah) at Lincoln University. Kwame Nkrumah (1909-1979) was the First Prime Minister and President of an independent Ghana. Was a student of Lincoln University in Pennsylvania before joining the United Gold Coast Convention in Europe. He would return to Ghana and form his Conventional People’s Party which would later become the independence governing party in independent Ghana. He worked closely with W.E.B. Du Bois to host one of the Pan-African Congresses of the century. He is quoted as saying that the independence of Ghana was meaningless unless it was linked with the total independence of the African continent. Horace Mann Bond (1904-1972) was a 1923 graduate of Lincoln University in Pennsylvania. From 1924-1939 he taught at Langston University in Langston, Oklahoma and served as chair of Fisk University’s Education Department. In 1939 he completed his doctoral dissertation at the University of Chicago. In 1945 he became President of Lincoln University and held the position until 1957. He contributed research for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People’s Legal Defense and Education Fund for its 1954 historic Brown v. Education case.

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Temple University

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