Steven j corwin biography of barack obama

Henry Louis Gates, Jr., the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor at Harvard University and Director of the W.E.B.

Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research opens this short biography with an introduction.

Steven j corwin biography of barack obama

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Written the day after Barak Obama’s election as the 44th President of the United States, he talks about the “few magical transformative moments in African American history”:

The first time was New Year’s Day in 1863, when tens of thousands of black people huddled together all over the North waiting to see if Abraham Lincoln would sign the Emancipation Proclamation.

The second was the night of 22 June 1938, the storied rematch between Joe Louis and Max Schmeling, when black families and friends crowded around radios to listen and cheer as the Brown Bomber knocked out Schmeling in the first round.

The third, of course, was 28 August 1963, when the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. proclaimed t