Happy birthday to President #BarackObama 🎉

In 1990, while a student at Harvard Law School, Barack Obama spoke out in support of Professor Derrick Bell. At the time, the school had only five tenured female professors and three tenured Black professors. There were no Black female tenured professors. Professor Bell vowed to take a leave of absence unless the school hired a Black woman for a tenure-track position.

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Happy birthday to President #BarackObama 🎉

In 1990, while a student at Harvard Law School, Barack Obama spoke out in support of Professor Derrick Bell. At the time, the school had only five tenured female professors and three tenured Black professors. There were no Black female tenured professors. Professor Bell vowed to take a leave of absence unless the school hired a Black woman for a tenure-track position.

Courtesy of @wgbhhttps://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-qn5z60c97r

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