Black Power Movement

Howard Fuller worked throughout North Carolina on poverty issues and was the leader of the group that founded MXLU. He is pictured (right) registering students for classes in 1969. Photo courtesy of Durham Herald Sun

In 1969 local activist Howard Fuller along with a group of Duke students founded Malcolm X Liberation University in an old hosiery mill in downtown Durham. Fuller and the students were unhappy with Duke's progress toward equal resources for black students and the formation of a black studies department, common concerns at the time in…