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Obama invokes spirit of civil rights movement in inaugural speech

 

Published 1/20/2009 by rsinderbrand at CNN Political Ticker

WASHINGTON (CNN) — President Obama, the nation's first African-American chief executive, invoked the spirit of the civil rights movement during his inaugural address, noting that, in previous generations, his own father might have been denied service at a restaurant. "This is the meaning of (America's) liberty and our creed — why men and women and [...] (link)

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