Notable Faculty and Staff
| Name | Department | Notability | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Althea Gibson | black tennis pioneer, Wimbledon, French Open, and US Open champion who was an athletics instructor in the early 1950s | ||
| Lorenzo Greene | black historian who taught at the university (1933-1972) | ||
| Robert Nathaniel Dett | composer | ||
| Oliver Cromwell Cox | a member of the Chicago School of Sociology and early world-systems theorist who taught at Lincoln (1949-1970) |
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