Barack Obama Born: Future First Black President
Barack Obama's mother was from Kansas. His father was Kenyan, present for two years of his life. He grew up in Hawaii and Indonesia, went to Harvard Law, became editor of the law review, and spent years as a community organizer in Chicago's South Side. The 2008 campaign was supposed to be Hillary Clinton's. He won Iowa, which is 91% white, and the calculation changed. He was 47 when he was inaugurated. His father never saw it.
August 4, 1961
65 years ago
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