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The Law Library will operate under its intersession hours during Spring Break (Saturday, 3/7 - Saturday, 3/14). The library will resume normal operations on 3/15/2026. Refer to the flyer for a detailed list of hours and mark your calendars!

Hello Legal Eagles! This month’s Database highlight is HeinOnline Women & the Law, or Peggy, in honor of Women’s History Month. The NCCU law school community can explore the subjects Women & Education, Women & Employment, Women & Society, Legal Rights, Suffrage & More. Click the link buff.ly/wJxPhek

To close out this year’s Black History Month and 100 years of Black History commemoration, the NCCU Law Library is excited to recognize someone from the Nest, Floyd McKissick (1922-1991).Click the link to learn more! buff.ly/NsHqzC1

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Kwame Ture (1941-1998) was born Stokley Carmichael in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. He was an activist who was central to the Civil Rights Movement and the Pan-African movement. Click the link to learn more! buff.ly/NsHqzC1

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Angela Davis (b. 1944) was born in Birmingham, Alabama, to schoolteachers. She is a Civil Rights activist, a feminist, a communist, and a scholar. Click the link to learn more! buff.ly/NsHqzC1

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Huey P. Newton (1942-1989) was born in Monroe, Louisiana, but grew up in the Bay Area of California, specifically Oakland, California. He was a Socialist and a Civil Rights advocate. Click the link to learn more! buff.ly/NsHqzC1

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Good luck to all who are sitting for the bar exam today!

Constance Baker Motley (1921-2005) was a legal strategist in the Civil Rights movement, a Judge, and a politician. Click the link to learn more! buff.ly/NsHqzC1

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Good luck to all who are sitting for the bar exam today!

Mamie Till Mobley (1921-2003) was born in Webb, Mississippi. When she was about 2 years old, her family moved to Chicago, Illinois, in 1924 as part of the “Great Migration”. Click the link to learn more! buff.ly/NsHqzC1

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Ella Baker (1903-1986) was born in Norfolk, Virginia. She was an African American civil rights activist. Click the link to learn more! buff.ly/NsHqzC1

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Daisy Bates (1914-1999) was born in Huttig, Arkansas, and was an African American civil rights activist, publisher, journalist, and lecturer. Click the link to learn more! buff.ly/NsHqzC1

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Today is World Day of Social Justice. Fred Hampton (1948-1969) was born in the Chicago area of Illinois and was an African American revolutionary socialist and activist. Click the link to learn more! buff.ly/NsHqzC1

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Muhammad Ali (1942-2016) was born Cassius Clay in Louisville, Kentucky. He was a Muslim African American professional boxer, a civil rights and anti-war activist. Muhammad Ali is known as “The Greatest of All Time.” Click the link to learn more! buff.ly/NsHqzC1

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Malcolm X (1925-1965) was born as Malcolm Little in Omaha, Nebraska, and later changed his name to Malik El-Shabazz. He was a Black Muslim, revolutionary, liberationist, & black nationalist. Click the link to learn more! buff.ly/NsHqzC1

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Happy Lunar New Year from NCCU Law Library!

Thurgood Marshall (1908-1993) was born in Baltimore, Maryland, as Thoroughgood Marshall. He was a civil rights lawyer who founded the NAACP’s Legal Defense Fund. Click the link to learn more! buff.ly/NsHqzC1

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Happy Mardi Gras from NCCU Law Library!

Rev. Dr. Pauli Murray (1910-1985) was raised in Durham, NC. She was a legal scholar & theorist, a Civil Rights activist, & later an Episcopalian priest. She is known as the legal architect of the Civil Rights Movement. Click the link to learn more! buff.ly/NsHqzC1

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During the celebration of 100 years of Black History commemorations this Black History Month, the NCCU Law Library wants to highlight President Gerald R. Ford this President’s Day. Click the link to learn why! buff.ly/NsHqzC1

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February 1 1960, 4 students from NCA&T in Greensboro, NC, challenged the segregation of the local Woolworth store lunch counter. The 4 were David Richmond, Franklin McCain, Jibreel Khazan (née Ezell Blair Jr), & Joe McNeil. Click the link to learn more buff.ly/NsHqzC1
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Lena Horne (1917-2010) was born in the Bedford–Stuyvesant neighborhood of New York City, New York. She was an actress, a singer, a dancer, and a Civil Rights activist. Click the link to learn more! buff.ly/NsHqzC1

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Happy Valentine's Day from NCCU Law Library!

Rosa Parks (1913-2005) was born in Tuskegee, Alabama, and was a Civil Rights activist. She was an active member of the Montgomery, Alabama, chapter of the NAACP and trained at the Highlander Folk School in Tennessee. Click the link to learn more! buff.ly/NsHqzC1

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Cicely Tyson (1924-2021) was born in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City, New York, to parents who emigrated from the Caribbean island of Nevis. Click the link to learn more! buff.ly/NsHqzC1

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Marcus Garvey (1887-1940) was born in Saint Ann’s Bay, Jamaica. He was a political theorist and activist. In 1914, Marcus Garvey founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA). Click the link to learn more! buff.ly/NsHqzC1

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Eartha Kitt (1927-2008) was born in North, South Carolina to a sharecropping family. She was a singer, actress, dancer, songwriter, & a Civil Rights and anti-war activist. Click the link to learn more! buff.ly/NsHqzC1

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The Law Library is honoring another member of the Nest for Black History Month, North Carolina Central University alumnus Ernest Eugene Barnes Jr., better known as Ernie Barnes (1938-2009). Click the link to learn more! buff.ly/NsHqzC1

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Mahalia Jackson (1911-1972) was born in New Orleans in a religious family. That start in life led her to be the most significant musical voice in Gospel music. Learn more by clicking this link! buff.ly/NsHqzC1

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