1-1-2007 A History of America's First Jim Crow Law School Library and Staff Ernesto A. Longa University of New Mexico - School of Law Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/law_facultyscholarship Part of the Law Commons Recommended Citation Ernesto A. Longa, A History of America's First Jim Crow Law School Library and Staff, 7 Connecticut Public Interest Law Journal 77 (2007). Available at: https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/law_facultyscholarship/65 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the UNM School of Law at UNM Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Faculty Scholarship by an authorized administrator of UNM Digital Repository. For more information, please contact
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[email protected]. A History of America’s First Jim Crow Law School Library and Staff* ERNESTO LONGA† I. INTRODUCTION In 1996, Marvin Roger Anderson, State Law Librarian at the Minnesota State Law Library, proposed an ambitious research agenda to explore the history of African American Law Librarians.1 Anderson suggested researchers focus on the law libraries of the historically African American law schools, noting that, to date, only one history had been written.2 In addition, Anderson suggested researching the relationship between the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) and the historically African American law school libraries and their staff.3 Ten years later, the law librarian community has yet to produce any significant scholarship in response to Anderson’s proposed research agenda. This essay accepts the challenge presented by Anderson by providing a history of Lincoln University Law School (1939-1955), America’s first Jim Crow Law School, profiling its staff, and documenting its relationship with the AALL.