History Photographed on Instagram: "Barack Obama participated in a student protest at Harvard Law School in 1991. ⁠ ⁠ In the spring of 1991, Professor Derrick Bell took an unpaid leave of absence to protest the law school's failure to offer a tenured position to a Black female professor.⁠ ⁠ At the time, Harvard Law School had no Black women on its tenured faculty.⁠ ⁠ As a third-year law student and the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review, Obama was a key figure at the rall