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Obama Inauguration
President Bush is booed badly aftetr being introduced to millions on the Washington Mall
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Keith Matthews came from Dallas for the inauguration. Here he explains what watching Obama’s inauguration meant to him.
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Kathy Brown talks about her friendship with Ethel Payne, first black woman White House correspondent
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See also: Ethel Payne: History maker, history follower and “First Lady of the Black Press”
Rev. Wallace Charles Smith of Shiloh Baptist Church introduces Congressman John Lewis of Georgia
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Congressman John Lewis of Georgia, the final surviving member of 1963 march on Washington speakers, preaches at Shiloh Baptist Church
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Kurt Biegb recently lost his job and came down from New York to sell Obama playing cards
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Sat Hanuman Singh Khalsa describes how his grand daughter Tevan asked to be taken to the inauguration for her birthday.
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A woman I met at Obama’s Democratic National Convention acceptance speech calls it the “happiest day of my life.”
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Dr. Allen Curtis, president of the Eisenhower Foundation, explains five different areas of where the most change can be made in America’s inner city.
Racial injustice
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Crime
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Poverty
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Diversity in media
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Will Obama’s development initiatives fall victim to other burdens like the Great Society in the 1960s?
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If there was one single legislative act or program to fund, one step, what would that be for you?
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Levi Thomas
“Chad” Idris Hameed
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Abdirahim Abdirahman
Laurel Beckman, an art professor at University of California Santa Barbara
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Audio below was collected as part of a timeline of the 1968 student strikes
Benny Stewart, chairman of the Black Student Union during the strike
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Stewart describes the first day of the strike
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A year earlier, Black Student Union members rushed the student newspaper offices and assaulted paper staff.
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Stewart describes the mass bust, a day when hundreds of students were arrested by police
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Stewart recalls Nov, 20, 1968, the day when…
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Stewart recalls Nov. 14, 1968 when
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Alma Maxwell, a woman and member of Black Student Union
Maxwell talks about the mass bust, a day when hundreds of students were arrested by police
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April 4, 1968? Maxwell
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Maxwell laughs for nearly a minute after hearing that former school president S.I. Hayakawa is dead
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Jules Allen
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