The Virgil Darnell Hawkins Collection: A Special Collection at the Heart of An HBCU Law School
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PATRICE JONES, Yolanda (2019) The Virgil Darnell Hawkins Collection: A Special Collection at the Heart of An HBCU Law School. Paper presented at: IFLA WLIC 2019 - Athens, Greece - Libraries: dialogue for change in Session 115 - Law Libraries.
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The Virgil Darnell Hawkins Collection: A Special Collection at the Heart of An HBCU Law School
The Florida A&M University College of Law has several special collections, but the most significant of those special collections is one that is on the fourth floor of the law library. When you look at it you will see several ranges of books that are outdated. They include case reporters, statutes, secondary sources and other legal materials that are no older than the 1960s. This collection, frozen in time, is named in honor of Virgil Darnell Hawkins, an African-American who, while little known, was critical to the creation of the Florida A&M University College of Law and had an impact on African American access to higher education in the state of Florida, as well as on the civil rights movement in the United States nationally.Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) | ||||||
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Conference details: | IFLA WLIC 2019 - Athens, Greece - Libraries: dialogue for changeSession 115 - Telling Our Stories - Law Libraries |
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Divisions: | Division 1 Library Types > Law Libraries Section | ||||||
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | Law Libraries, Civil Rights, Special Collections, Digital Archives | ||||||
Date Deposited: | 06 Sep 2019 11:59 | ||||||
Last Modified: | 06 Sep 2019 11:59 | ||||||
URI: | https://library.ifla.org/id/eprint/2668 |
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