Malcolm X Liberation University: This Date in History

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OTD in 1969 Malcolm X Liberation University opened in Durham. #Dook students had protested the lack of AFAM Studies-Activist Howard Fuller led the founding. Durham’s Malcolm X Liberation University

“The stated mission of the radical new university was to provide an ideological and practical methodology for meeting the physical, social, psychological, economical and culture needs of black people as well as to provide an alternate to institutionalized racism in education.”
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MXLU MOVED TO Greensboro after a year in Durham & closed before graduating any students. It was a bold, and for the times, radical, experiment. Universities had no African American Studies in their curriculums in those dayls. MXLU no doubt was key in striking blows against that ignorance.
 
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