Shange, who graduated from the Manhattan college in 1970, said in a video, “I feel as though I came of age as a feminist and an artist at Barnard…I got all that I ever imagined from an all-women’s college, and I thought my archives belonged here.”
The archive includes personal photos, artwork, manuscripts, a quill pen utilized by the playwright as well as Phat Mama, the literary journal that Shange began while a student at Barnard.
For Colored Girls played a total of 742 performances at Broadway's Booth Theatre, from September 1976-July 1978.
