African-American History Month—a national tradition since 1926, when it was established in its earliest form as Negro History Week—has also been a Barnard tradition for decades. The earliest mention of a formal campus observation is in the March 4, 1947 issue of the Barnard Bulletin, which reported on a Feb. 25 speech by Burton Turner, [...]
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