ABSTRACT
This chapter initiates a reflective articulation of author's motivation to attend an HBCU for postgraduate education and highlight the contributory role of the Historically Black College and University in the development of a Black intelligentsia. Historically Black Colleges and Universities provide the requisite communal space to engage the intellectual development of the African American student. Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) were at the center of the civil rights movement. The HBCU context became an incubator for political activism and social justice. Regarding the nexus between civil rights and the HBCU, Charles Hamilton Houston made an indelible impression and cemented the author desire to attend an HBCU. Charles Hamilton Houston was a scholar, educator, and lawyer, and he fiercely committed his life to extinguishing racism and the social structures that supported and reinforced racial animus by using the rule of law as instrument for justice and social change.
