Higher Education

Malcolm X Liberation University - Empowerment Through History and Learning

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…

Before Brown v. Board – Conrad Pearson Fights for Desegregating Higher Education

Attorney Conrad Odell Pearson (left) with attorneys, Hugh Thompson, Floyd McKissick, William G. Marsh, and John H. Wheeler. Photo courtesy of The Herald Sun. Originally from North Carolina Collection, Durham County Library.

Thomas Hocutt, a Black student from Durham, wanted to become a pharmacist. But in 1933, the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill denied his application to their Pharmacy school on the basis of race. Attorneys Conrad Pearson and Cecil McCoy took up his case and with the support of the NAACP, filed a…

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