Lawson State Community College
A Salute to Black History
Understanding Wisdom And FOREVER Appreciating The Past
~ Associate Dean of Business and Information Technologies (BIT) Division ~
~Chairperson of the BIT Birmingham Campus~
~ Acting Director of the Small Business Center ~
~ Department Webmaster/BlackBoard Administrator ~
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Below, right, and left are links that will enrich your knowledge of the past and present selfless contributions made by just a FEW of our MANY great African Americans. As you read the wealth of information on the pages, think about how our world would be today without the selfless contributions and what we have learned from the good and the bad.Also, recognize the unbending focus and intensity of their efforts despite repeated rejections and unfulfilled expectations.
We must continue to remember and respect
our heritage (even though one might not agree with the actions of some--it is
still history) by never saying good-bye to yesterday, for we are still
standing on their shoulders—yesterday made our present possible.
Appreciate OUR Past . . .
Barack Obama -- 44th President of the United States
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The FirstAfrican American President of the United States
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Yes, We Can!
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By: Dr. Alice Tyler Milton - Music By: Will-I-Am
"We are greater than the sum of our individual ambitions, and we remain more than a
collection of red states and blue states. We are and forever will be the United States of America."
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Barack Hussein Obama II, the first African American president of the United States, was born on August 4, 1961. Obama is the 44th president of the United States and is currently serving his second term in office. Born in Honolulu, Hawaii . . . Read more about Barack Hussein Obama
The Dreams
Voting
"We aren't what we ought to be. We aren't what we are going to be. We aren't what we want to be.
But, thank God, we aren't what we were . . ." Continue to Register to Vote
LET US REMEMBER WHY WE SHOULD VOTE!
Inauguration
President Obama Receives A Nobel Peace Prize
December 10, 2009
December 10, 2009 -- The Nobel committee awarded the peace prize to Obama for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen
international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples and cited his push for nuclear disarmament.
Obama Donates Money from Peace Prize
2010 State of the Union Address - Video
2010 State of the Union Address - Text
Thank You Mr. President!
For Your Warm And Genuine Smile
For A Mind That Is Always Thinking
For Preventing A Second Great Depression
For The Humor
For Bringing The Number Of Women In The Supreme Court To 3
For Making The White House The "People's" House
For 1.1 Million Jobs Created In 2010 Alone
For A Genuine LOVE For The People (No Matter What Size)
For The "Showing" Of A Husband's LOVE
For The LOVE OF FAMILY
For FATHERLY LOVE
For Our Beautiful First Lady
For Health Care Reform
For Leaving The Past Behind
For The World Having Respect For America, Again
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For Just Being "Cool"
For Being Fierce When You Need To Be
For Having The Intellect To Be Curious
For The Capacity To Know That You Are, As We Are--Imperfect
For Having The Sense To Not Let The Job Destroy You!
For The Capacity To Be Compassionate
For Being An Inspiration For So Many
For Saving The Auto Industry At Least 1.4 Million Jobs
For Bringing 100,000 Men And Women Back From Iraq
And LOVING The Troops
For Understanding The Horrible Price Of War
For Facing The Most Difficult And Loneliest Job In The World With
Grace, Dignity, Honesty And Guts In Spite Of So Many "Haters"
For Being, In Spite Of All The Hate, Pettiness, Racism, Corruption
And Immaturity Around, The Most Progressive President In Decades!
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Just Simply Being MR. PRESIDENT
Barack Obama -- Re-Elected
Sworn In Four Times
One Last Look
From The White House: "I want to take a look one more time" —President Obama takes a moment to look
back at the crowd following the
inaugural ceremony at the U.S. Capitol:
http://wh.gov/inauguration
President Obama and His Kenyan Family
In this Obama Family photo are: (bottom row, from left) half-sister Auma, her mother Kezia Obama, Obama's step-grandmother Sarah Hussein Onyango Obama and unknown; (top row, from left) unknown, Barack Obama, half-brother Abongo (Roy) Obama, and three unknowns.
Early Years
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Barack walks along Waikiki Beach shortly before he and his mother moved from Hawaii to Indonesia to live with her second husband, Lolo Soetoro, in 1967.
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Barack poses with his mother, Ann; half sister, Maya; and maternal grandfather, Stanley Dunham in Hawaii in the early 1970s after the family returned from Indonesia. Neighbors remember the close relationship between young Barack and his grandfather. |
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FATHER and SON - Barack Obama Sr. poses with his son in the Honolulu airport during Obama Sr.'s only visit to see his son while he was growing up in Hawaii. Young Barack was in the 5th grade when the photo was taken |
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Barack Obama Sr., a native of Kenya, met his future wife while they were students at the University of Hawaii. In 1963, he essentially abandoned his family to continue his studies at Harvard.
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THE DUNHAMS: precocious, self-assured Stanley Ann (left); her impetuous father, who named his only child after himself; her mother, Madelyn, the quiet, firm influence in the home. At their home in Jakarta, Ann Dunham poses in this undated photo with her second husband, Lolo Soetoro, their daughter, Maya, and Barack Obama.
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Barack Obama with his maternal grandparents, Stanley and Madelyn Dunham during a 1982 visit to New York, where Obama was attending Columbia
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Barack Obama walks with his grandmother Sarah Hussein Obama at his father's house in Nyongoma Kogelo village, Western Kenya, in August 2006.
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Barack Obama with his grandmother, Sarah Hussein Obama, in Africa
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A page from Barack Obama's senior yearbook features his personalized message to family, friends and teammates. (Photo from The Oahuan yearbook)
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Barack Obama hugs his younger half sister, Maya, at his high school graduation.
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Barack Obama shakes hands during his graduation ceremony from Punahou School in 1979. While in his early teens, Obama chose to stay at the school and live with his grandparents after his mother decided to move back to Jakarta, Indonesia.
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At his high school graduation, Barack Obama gets a hug from his grandmother, Madelyn, as his grandfather Stanley Beams. His maternal grandparents raised Obama in Hawaii while his mother was living in Indonesia .
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Maya Soetoro-Ng, Barack Obama's half sister, teaches her Education in American Society class at the University of Hawaii.
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The wedding day of Barack Obama Jr. and Michelle LaVaughn Robinson
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Barack Obama, and Sen. Edward Kennedy, at President Bush's 2007 State of the Union address. |
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Michelle Obama at a fund raiser in New York for her husband.
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Reaching Out: Obama speaks during a service in Selma, Alabama |
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Barack Obama speaks at a town hall meeting held at Cree Inc., a manufacturer of semiconductors in Durham, N.C. |
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GRANDPARENTS and MOM
GRANDFATHER
BARACK and FIRST
BORN
THE FAMILY
Campaigning
QUOTATION . . .
'Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are
powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, who am
I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of God.
Your playing small doesn't serve the
world.
There's nothing
enlightened about shrinking so
that
other people won't feel insecure around you.
We are all meant to shine, as children
do.
We are born to make
manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It's not just in some of us, it's in
everyone.
And as we let
our own light shine,
we
unconsciously give other
people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear,
our presence
automatically liberates others.'
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Yes, We Can!!
November 3, 2008
The Passing of His Grandmother
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November 4, 2008
Yes, We Did!!
The Beast
African Americans in the White House--The Root
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