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Negro History Week launched / Bonfire of the Vanities - February 7

Negro History Week launched / Bonfire of the Vanities - February 7

This Day in History Class

February 7, 202112m 25s

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Show Notes

On this day in 1926, the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History launched Negro History Week, which was later extended to Black History Month. / On this day in 1497, followers of the Dominican friar Girolamo Savonarola burned objects thought to incite sin in an event known as the Bonfire of the Vanities.

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