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The library is CLOSED this Sunday 3/12, and will o

The library is CLOSED this Sunday 3/12, and will operate on an amended schedule for Spring Break.

Normal hours will resume Sunday 3/19 at 2pm.

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In the spirit of International Women’s Day, expl

In the spirit of International Women’s Day, explore the e-book Black Beauties: African American pageant queens in the segregated south. Now available on library.jcsu.edu 👑

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Check out these Women’s History Month titles available at James B. Duke Memorial Library 🌷📚🌷

Day 17 of #goldenlegacies highlighting JCSU alumni

Day 17 of #goldenlegacies highlighting JCSU alumni is J. Charles Jones (Bachelor of Arts, Class of 1958), who is one of the brightest stars to shine at Smith. Jones was active in organizing JCSU students and Westside neighbors in civil rights demonstrations and actions in the 1950's and 1960's as Jim Crow was being challenged across the South. After hearing radio reports of the lunch counter sit-in at Woolworth's in nearby Greensboro, NC that helped ignite the civil rights movement in the South, Jones led similar protests at downtown Charlotte lunch counters and brought 200 JCSU students with him the first day. He was also a key founder of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee in the 1960's, rode with the Freedom Riders, and was jailed with friends like Dr. Martin Luther King in his efforts travelling around the South to register black voters. Thanks to the actions of organizers like Charles, many see North Carolina as one of the historical birthplaces of the civil rights movement.

The Howard University Law school alum was a civil rights attorney for 35 years, often speaking to media and members of the community about the movement that pushed for the Civil Rights Bill of 1964. Charles returned to live near the university and practice law, and was one of the most passionate, active, and visible residents of the Historic West End for decades until his death in 2019. He was a tireless advocate for JCSU and for the residents of Biddleville, Washington Heights, and others as they have fought through decades of change and development and battled years of crime and drugs, and he now holds legendary local status as a neighborhood leader. After his death, his wife generously donated an incredible painting of Charles by artist Charlotta Janssen to the James B. Duke Memorial Library at JCSU.

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