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