Introduction

Forty years after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the charismatic leader of the civil rights movement, Barack H. Obama was elected the first African American president of the United States of America in 2008. Although U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy had predicted in 1961 that...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Alfred Hornung
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Göttingen University Press 2012-01-01
Series:American Studies Journal
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Online Access:http://www.asjournal.org/archive/56/205.html