%0 Journal Article
%T Introduction
%A Alfred Hornung
%J American Studies Journal
%D 2012
%I American Studies Journal
%X 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 a black person could be president like his brother ¡°in the next thirty or forty years,¡± nobody really expected this kind of victory to come true.
%K Barack Obama
%K United States
%K America
%K South
%K politics
%K presidency
%K civil rights movement
%K memory
%K culture
%K literature
%U http://www.asjournal.org/archive/56/205.html