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From left: President Barack Obama delivering his victory speech in Chicago after being reelected for a second term on November 6, 2012; Martin Luther King, Jr., waving to sup- porters during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, August 28, 1963
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s we commence with the 44th NAACP Image Awards, it is important to look back on the torchbearers and historic milestones that made these opportunities for people of color possible. This year marks the 150th anniversary of the signing of the
Emancipation Proclamation. In 2009, 146 years after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation,
HISTORIC PATH TO THE WHITE HOUSE
The dream of our ancestors
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then-Senator Barack Obama borrowed Abraham Lincoln’s bible to be sworn in as the nation’s fi rst black president, recognizing the unique role his predecessor played in American history and the struggle for freedom, while being fully aware that no single elected offi cial, legislation or act of government could free a people. President Obama, having crossed
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the threshold into American history once, distinguished himself again, by winning a second term and becoming the fi rst president since Dwight D. Eisenhower to twice receive more than 51 percent of the popular vote. Even as we celebrate this landmark
election, we know that the struggle to create a more perfect union must be continuously rekindled by each generation, for the next generation. This year also marks the 50th
anniversary of the assassination and enduring legacy of NAACP and civil rights leader Medgar Evers. As a native son of the segregated South of the 1950s, Evers was a man acutely aware of the historical obligation to continue struggling for true emancipation, and while doing so helped provide the model for the effective boycott strategies of the Civil Rights Movement a decade later. Medgar Evers approached his life’s work with an unwavering resolve and an
unfl inching eye. “I’m looking to be shot any time I step out of my car . . . If I die, it will be in a good cause. I’ve been fighting for America ... ,” he said.
Watch the 44th NAACP IMAGE AWARDS Friday, February 1, at 8/7C on NBC
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