Bench by the Road Unveiling Ceremony

November 14, 2019
International Cultural Center
12:30 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.

The Toni Morrison Society will present Lincoln University with the 26th bench placement from the Bench by the Road Project on November 14.

The event is free and open to the public. No tickets are required. 

Learn more about the Bench by the Road Project. 

After completing the application and selection process, Lincoln University becomes only the second HBCU in the country to receive this honor. 

The Toni Morrison society launched the Bench by the Road Project on February 18, 2006, as a memorial history and community outreach initiative of the Toni Morrison Society. The name "Bench by the Road" is taken from Morrison's remarks in a 1989 interview with World Magazine where she spoke of the absences of historical markers in certain places that help remember the lives of peoples of African descent and their contributions to the world.

Toni Morrison was the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. She authored 11 novels as well as children’s books and essay collections including celebrated works such as “Song of Solomon,” which received the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1977, and “Beloved,” which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1988.

To learn more, contact Ravonda Dalton-Rann at rdaltonrann@lincoln.edu