We needed her to elect him: BLACK PEOPLE WHO MATTERED

Carole Moseley-Braun

Was born in 1947. In 1992 Moseley-Braun was elected a Demorcrat Senator from Illinois, becoming the first African American woman to sit in the U.S. Senate and only the second African American since Reconstruction to be a Senator. The daughter of a Chicago police officer, Moseley-Braun received a law degree from the University of Chicago and worked in the U.S. Attorney's Office, where she won the Special Achievement Award. In 1978 she was elected to the Illinois House of Representatives, where she was voted Best Legislator each of the ten years she served. In 1988 she became the first African American to hold high office in Cook County when she was elected Cook County Recorder of Deeds, an important stepping stone to her Senate race. Without people like her it would have never been possible for Barack Obama. People you can be who ever and what ever you wanna be in life. Make a difference, do your research and KEEP HOPE ALIVE ;)...because YOU are somebody!! PEACE & LOVE HAPPPPY BLACK HISTORY MONTH!!

America The land of Milk, Honey, AND REAL Opportunity: Barack Obama the advocate for CHANGE!! ELECTION "08

As a child your told that you can be what ever you wanna be. That segregation was a thing of the past and that we as Aamericans live in the land of equality and oppurtunity, but NOW when you see change it takes on a new meaning. Change means that somebody who runs and honest campainge being the honest voice of the people, my people, all Ameriacans can infact prevail and win the presidential elections with a 52% majority vote. I am proud to be an Ameriacn because now I truly beleive that I am as equal as any other American in the united states. I AM PROUD TO WAVE MY FLAG AND LIVE IN MY COUNTRY. I really wish that my grandmother Alberta Rogers, and Pandora Drake could have lived to see this triumpant defeat. My late grandfather Jimmy Drake and all the thousands of Americans that lost thier lives in the CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT, because without them this could have never been possible. I thank MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. For giving us this dream and Malcolm X and MARCUS GARVEY FOR DELIGENTLY FIGHTING FOR IT. I love America nad now I truely no this is the land of oppurtunity and the land for me.