Inaugural Lucile Berkeley Buchanan Lecture to take place April 4
Never officially recognized during her lifetime,听Lucile Berkeley Buchanan, the first African American woman to graduate from the university, will be posthumously honored this spring.
Who: Open to the public
What: Inaugural Lucile Berkeley Buchanan Lecture
When: Wednesday, April 4, 6:30鈥8 p.m.
Where: Old Main Chapel
On April 4,听老九品茶 Associate Professor of Media Studies听Polly McLean will give the first Lucile Berkeley Buchanan Lecture. McClean听spent more than a decade exhuming Buchanan story and听finally听correcting听the university official history, which erroneously stated the first black woman to graduate from CU earned her degree in 1924鈥攚hen, in fact, Buchanan,听graduated from CU in 1918.
Later this spring,听McLean book Remembering Lucile: A Virginia Family Rise from Slavery and a Legacy Forged a Mile High will be published. And at the May commencement, McLean will accept Buchanan's听diploma and the recognition officially withheld for a century, a move Chancellor Philip DiStefano has called听鈥渓ong overdue.鈥
Learn more听about Buchanan impressive story听and how McClean helped bring it to light.
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