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The Lexis Digital Library allows access to a variety of titles published by Lexis, including the Question and Answer and Understanding series of study aids. To log in you will need your FAMU library number located on the bottom of your student ID. How-to videos to help you navigate the library and other support documentation can be found here.

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Electronic Textbook Access Information

Electronic Textbook Access Information

For instructions on how to access textbooks electronically, you will need to visit the Law Library's TWEN page. Once you are on the Library's TWEN page, the instructions to access textbooks according to their publisher can be found under the new Remote Access section as a PDF.

If you have not added the library's TWEN page to your courses, you can add it as you would any other course by going to the Manage Courses options, clicking on the Add Course option, searching for FAMU Law Library, and then adding the TWEN page to your course listing.

Law School Hints and News

No, you are not crazy. If you are trying to learn something new, go ahead and talk to yourself!

Learning the complexity of the law can feel like you are going bonkers, but do not worry if you start to talk to yourself about the subjects you are trying to learn. Talking to yourself about what you are learning can help you retain details. As you talk to yourself, explain the material to yourself. Explaining a topic to yourself makes you examine a topic from a different angle and can allow you to make connections about ideas involved in the topic you are studying you may not have otherwise.

Do not worry about appearing crazy, when you talk to yourself. Talking to yourself is quite normal and can have benefits beyond helping you remember something, including fighting off feelings of isolation. With a good percentage of the population under stay at home orders of various kinds, a good number of us could gain something from talking to ourselves.

Monthly Showcase

In February, we celebrate Black History Month. If you would like to check out any of these books, please ask the circulation staff to place a hold on it for you, and you will receive it at the end of the month.

Walking with the Wind by John Lewis; Michael D'Orso
ISBN: 0156007088
Publication Date: 1999-10-18
Congressman John Lewis takes readers inside the civil rights movement in Walking with the Wind and shares rare insight into the personalities at its heart.
Barbara Jordan by Mary Beth Rogers
ISBN: 0553380664
Publication Date: 2000-01-04
Barbara Jordan was the first African American to serve in the Texas Senate since Reconstruction, the first black woman elected to Congress from the South, and the first to deliver the keynote address at a national party convention. Yet Jordan herself remained a mystery, a woman so private that even her close friends did not know the name of the illness that debilitated her for two decades until it struck her down at the age of fifty-nine.
Yes We Can? by Joe Feagin; Adia Wingfield Harvey
ISBN: 9780415999878
Publication Date: 2009-08-18
This book offers one of the first sociological analyses of Barack Obama's historic 2008 campaign for the presidency of the United States. Elaborating on the concept of the white racial frame, Harvey Wingfield and Feagin assess the ways racial framing was deployed by principal characters in the 2008 election.
Slavery in the South by Clayton E. Jewett; John O. Allen
ISBN: 0313320195
Publication Date: 2004-02-28
This book is the first comparative summary of the southern slave states from Colonial times to Reconstruction. The history of slavery in each state is a story based on the unique events in that jurisdiction, and is a chronicle of the relationships and interactions between its blacks and whites.
March: Book One by John Lewis; Andrew Aydin; Nate Powell (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781603093002
Publication Date: 2013-08-13
March is a vivid first-hand account of John Lewis' lifelong struggle for civil and human rights, meditating in the modern age on the distance traveled since the days of Jim Crow and segregation. Rooted in Lewis' personal story, it also reflects on the highs and lows of the broader civil rights movement.
A Step Toward Brown V. Board of Education by Cheryl Elizabeth Brown Wattley
ISBN: 9780806145457
Publication Date: 2014-10-08
In 1946 a young woman named Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher (1924-1995) was denied admission to the University of Oklahoma College of Law because she was African American. The OU law school was an all-white institution in a town where African Americans could work and shop as long as they got out before sundown. But if segregation was entrenched in Norman, so was the determination of black Oklahomans who had survived slavery to stake a claim in the territory.
African American Women Speak Out on Anita Hill - Clarence Thomas by Geneva Smitherman (Editor)
ISBN: 0814325300
Publication Date: 1995-06-01
This work contains reflections as well as in-depth analyses by African American women scholars and writers on the Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas confrontation over sexual harassment. It also looks at the case's broader meaning for the African American community.
Boycotts, Buses, and Passes by Pamela E. Brooks
ISBN: 9781558496781
Publication Date: 2008-11-19
In the mid-1950s, as many developing nations sought independence from colonial rule, black women in the American South and in South Africa launched parallel campaigns to end racial injustice within their respective communities. Just as the dignified obstinacy of Mrs. Rosa Parks sparked the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955, the 20,000 South African women who marched in Pretoria a year later to protest the pass laws signaled a new wave of resistance to the system of apartheid.
Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement by Barbara Ransby
ISBN: 0807856169
Publication Date: 2005-02-28
One of the most important African American leaders of the twentieth century and perhaps the most influential woman in the civil rights movement, Ella Baker (1903-1986) was an activist whose remarkable career spanned fifty years and touched thousands of lives.
Freedom Riders by Ann Bausum
ISBN: 0792241746
Publication Date: 2005-12-27
Freedom Riders compares and contrasts the childhoods of John Lewis, growing up in black America, and Jim Zwerg, growing up in white America, in a way that helps young readers understand the segregated experience of our nation's past. It shows how a common interest in justice created the convergent path that enabled these young men to meet as Freedom Riders on a bus journey south.

FAMU Law Library Online Repository

Be sure to visit the Library’s Online Repository at http://commons.law.famu.edu/.

The Repository holds a variety of publications and documents that could be useful for projects and research. Alumni, faculty, and student academic publications are available free to access to anyone on the web and cover a wide variety of topics. Through the online repository platform, FAMU College of Law’s Scholarly Commons scholarship has reached thousands of researchers around the world. To see the readership that the College's scholarship has, you can view the daily downloads of the Repository’s holdings through a map located at the bottom of the main page.

The Repository also hosts materials on FAMU College of Law’s founding, including information on the efforts of Virgil Hawkins to enter into the profession of law.

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