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Consolidate Smaller Tasks into a Single Time Slot to Enhance Your Efforts All Around

During law school, health and life maintaining activities can get set aside to address pressures such as reading for class, studying, and pursuing internship and job leads. While it is good to give important projects the time they need, you should take time to accomplish the tasks needed to maintain your wellbeing.

You can do a lot in five minutes to improve your quality of life. You can work out. You can breathe and meditate to reduce stress. You can even make microwave meals in a mug. While taking five minutes for life maintaining tasks is great, setting aside a set time in your schedule to bundle together smaller tasks into a concentrated effort has been found to have a number of positive effects. By deliberately accomplishing a series of smaller tasks you can enter a state of flow, knock several items off your to-do list, and clean up your mental and physical spaces from the clutter that can distract you from your larger projects and adding to your stress levels.

Monthly Showcase

In February, we celebrate Black History Month. Learn about some key African-American figures in America's history below. 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.

Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1895 by Paul Finkelman (Editor)
ISBN: 0195167775
Publication Date: 2006-04-06
It is impossible to understand America without understanding the history of African Americans. In nearly seven hundred entries, the Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1895 documents the full range of the African American experience during that period-from the arrival of the first slave ship to the death of Frederick Douglass-and shows how all aspects of American culture, history, and national identity have been profoundly influenced by the experience of African Americans.
Enslaved Women in America by Deleso A. Alford (Editor); Daina Ramey Berry (Editor)
ISBN: 9780313349089
Publication Date: 2012-06-12
This singular reference provides an authoritative account of the daily lives of enslaved women in the United States, from colonial times to emancipation following the Civil War. Through essays, photos, and primary source documents, the female experience is explored, and women are depicted as central, rather than marginal, figures in history.
The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African-American Civil Rights by Charles D. Lowery (Editor); John F. Marszalek (Editor); Thomas Adams Upchurch
ISBN: 0313327661
Publication Date: 2003-12-30
My Soul Is Rested by Howell Raines
ISBN: 9780140067538
Publication Date: 1983-09-29
The almost unfathomable courage and the undying faith that propelled the Civil Rights Movement are brilliantly captured in these moving personal recollections. Here are the voices of leaders and followers, of ordinary people who became extraordinary in the face of turmoil and violence.
Beauty Shop Politics by Tiffany M. Gill
ISBN: 9780252076961
Publication Date: 2010-03-03
Looking through the lens of black business history, Beauty Shop Politics shows how black beauticians in the Jim Crow era parlayed their economic independence and access to a public community space into platforms for activism. Tiffany M. Gill argues that the beauty industry played a crucial role in the creation of the modern black female identity and that the seemingly frivolous space of a beauty salon actually has stimulated social, political, and economic change.
The Eyes on the Prize Civil Rights Reader by Clayborne Carson (Editor); David J. Garrow (Editor); Gerald Gill (Editor); Vincent Harding (Editor); Darlene Clark Hine (Editor)
ISBN: 0140154035
Publication Date: 1991-11-01
The most comprehensive anthology of primary sources available, spanning the entire history of the American civil rights movement. A record of one of the greatest and most turbulent movements of this century, The Eyes on the Prize Civil Rights Reader is essential for anyone interested in learning how far the American civil rights movements has come and how far it has to go.
A Different Mirror by Ronald T. Takaki
ISBN: 0316831115
Publication Date: 1994-06-01
A Different Mirror is a dramatic new retelling of our nation's history, a powerful larger narrative of the many different peoples who together compose the United States of America. In a lively account filled with the stories and voices of people previously left out of the historical canon, Ronald Takaki offers a fresh perspective - a re-visioning - of our nation's past.
The Civil Rights Movement by Steven Kasher
ISBN: 0789206560
Publication Date: 1996-09-01
The first book to tell the story of the civil rights movement through the rousing and often wrenching photographs that recorded, promoted, and protected it.With a striking selection of images and a lively, informative text, Steven Kasher captures the danger, drama, and bravery of the civil rights movement.
I Have a Dream - Special Anniversary Edition by Martin Luther King
ISBN: 0062505521
Publication Date: 2003-04-29
"His life informed us, his dreams sustain us yet."* On August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. stood in front of the Lincoln Memorial looking out over thousands of troubled Americans who had gathered in the name of civil rights and uttered his now famous words, "I have a dream . . ." It was a speech that changed the course of history. This fortieth-anniversary edition honors Martin Luther King Jr.'s courageous dream and his immeasurable contribution by presenting his most memorable words in a concise and convenient edition.
Obama in Office by James A. Thurber
ISBN: 9781594519932
Publication Date: 2011-03-30
Barack Obama entered office on a wave of popular expectation; will he exit at the hands of a Tea Party inspired populist tsunami or return for four more years? Obama in Office brings together well-established political scientists and journalists to offer the first detailed assessment of President Obama and his first two years in office.
Frederick Douglass and the Fourth of July by James A. Colaiaco
ISBN: 9781403980724
Publication Date: 2007-06-26
On July 5th, 1852, Frederick Douglass, one of the greatest orators of all time, delivered what was arguably the century's most powerful abolition speech. At a time of year where American freedom is celebrated across the nation, Douglass eloquently summoned the country to resolve the contradiction between slavery and the founding principles of our country. In this book, James A. Colaiaco vividly recreates the turbulent historical context of Douglass' speech and delivers a colorful portrait ofthe country in the turbulent years leading to the civil war. Now including a reader's guide with discussion points, this book provides a fascinating new perspective on a critical time in American history.
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. As Chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Congressman John Lewis was at the epicenter of the civil rights movement in the late '50s and '60s. Arrested more than forty times, he was one of its youngest and most courageous leaders. Writing with charm, warmth, and honesty, Lewis moves from the Nashville lunch counter sit-ins as he reflects on the era to the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, where he led more than five hundred marchers on what became known as "Bloody Sunday." Though there have been exceptional books on the movement, Lewis's profound personal story is "destined to become a classic in civil rights literature" (Los Angeles Times).

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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