Black History Month celebrates the work of Americans such as Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, Barack Obama, Sojourner Truth, Marian Anderson and Jackie Robinson



One of the first successful challenges to segregation came in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955 when teenager Claudette Colvin was arrested for refusing to give her bus seat to a white woman and, for the first time in the city’s history, fought the charges in court.

Until the civil rights movement, most American blacks could get a college education only from historically black colleges and universities. Shown here is writer Alice Walker, who attended Spelman College in Atlanta.

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- Learn about the contributions of significant but less-prominent African Americans. Readers suggest future chapter......s to grow this Living Book.

- Photo Gallery: Historically Black Colleges and Universitieshttp://www.america.gov/multimedia/photogallery.html#/4110/hbcu/

- Photo Gallery: The U.S. Civil Rights Movementhttp://www.america.gov/multimedia/photogallery.html#/39/civil_rights_07/

- Photo Gallery: Historically Black Colleges and Universitieshttp://www.america.gov/multimedia/photogallery.html#/4110/hbcu/

- Photo Gallery: Black Economic Empowerment in Americahttp://www.america.gov/multimedia/photogallery.html#/30145/black_econ/

Michelle Obama: A Woman of Influence http://www.america.gov/michelle_obama.html

First lady Michelle Obama serves as a role model for women who strive to balance their professional careers and their roles as mothers and wives.

Washington — When Michelle Obama becomes first lady of the United States on January 20, she will join her husband in a partnership widely expected to transform the public face America presents to the world. In the process, she will assume a new role that offers exciting opportunities and challenges.

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Michelle Obama Defines Own Role as First Lady

Michelle Obama: A Woman of Influence

Michelle Obama Presents Modern Image for Black Women

Meet the Obama Family

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Posted by Khoi Dac Vo on January 23, 2009 at 02:54 AM (UTC)

Obama told Cabinet members and senior staff at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building.

"It's not about advantaging yourself. It's not about advancing your friends or your corporate clients. It's not about advancing an ideological agenda or the special interests of any organization,"

..."Public service is, simply and absolutely, about advancing the interests of Americans."

FREE AT LAST: The U.S. Civil Rights Movement

Full Book in PDF Format:

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This book recounts how African-American slaves and their descendants struggled to win — both in law and in practice — the civil rights enjoyed by other Americans. It is a story of dignified persistence and struggle, a story that produced great heroes and heroines, and one that ultimately succeeded by forcing Americans to confront squarely the shameful gap between their universal principles of equality and justice and the inequality, injustice, and oppression faced by millions of their fellow citizens.
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BARACK OBAMA: 44TH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

Photo: Courtesy FP Magazine Cover January 2009
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=220

BARACK OBAMA’S VICTORY SPEECH
America.gov
EN: http://www.america.gov/st/elections08-english/2008/November/20081105101958abretnuh0.580044.html?CP.rss=true
AR: http://www.america.gov/st/elections08-arabic/2008/November/20081105151948bsibhew0.672909.html


BARACK OBAMA BIOGRAPHY
Biographical info from America.gov http://uspolitics.america.gov/uspolitics/elections/candidates.html#11
Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress entry
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=O000167


BARACK OBAMA: 44TH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
America.gov
EN: http://www.america.gov/media/pdf/books/obamaen.pdf (10 pages)
AR: http://www.america.gov/ar/media/pdf/books/obama.pdf (10 pages)

Barack Obama, elected the 44th President of the United States, has lived a truly American life, and has opened a new chapter in American politics. This publication tells the story of Obama’s life, describes how he captured the presidency, and portrays his vision for the future. It also introduces readers to the Obama family and to the new Vice President, Joseph Biden.

OBAMA
November 2008, Special Edition Oxford Analytica
The Political Economist.com http://www.thepoliticaleconomist.com/resources/ThePoliticalEconomist2008-11.pdf


PRESIDENT OBAMA
A HISTORIC ELECTION ON THE WORLD’S FRONT PAGES
Images of front pages from many newspapers worldwide, the day after the November 4 U.S. election http://www.poynterextra.org/gallery/frontpages.html