Although Lincoln University’s campus was located in Jefferson City, Missouri, the law school was established in St. Louis because university officials believed that student enrollment would be better in an urban-centered program and that the St. Louis location offered students opportunities to meet with practicing lawyers and that faculty from the two white university law schools in the St. Louis area might be available as part-time lecturers at the new law school.
As a result of the court case, the Missouri General Assembly passed a bill which provided $275,000 for the creation and establishment of a law school for African-Americans, the Lincoln University School of Law, which opened its doors on September 20, 1939, with 31 students enrolled.
[4] The last Dean of the school was Daniel W. Bowles (1954–1955)[5] Members of the faculty the first year were Daniel W. Bowles, James C. Bush, Scovel Richardson, Myron B. Bush, H. Wilson Gray, Silas E. Garner and Virgh Lucas (Librarian).
[6] The first graduates of the law school were Dorothy L. Freeman, A. Alphonse Lenoir and Betty Stuart.
[1] The school was established in the former Poro Beauty College building,[1] a three-story structure which existed at 4310 St. Ferdinand Avenue in St. Louis until it was razed in 1965.