Barack Obama makes History
United states of America : On 20 January 2009, Barack Hussein Obama became the 44th President of the United States of America .Obama, who belongs to the Democratic party, won the election by a huge number of votes, defeating his rival John McCain of the Republican Party. ?Change has come to America,?Obama said in his victory speech. So how is Obama different from the 43 president before him? He is the first African American President of the United States of America.

Obama was born in Hawaii in 1961.It was a good year to be born. Had it been 10 years earlier, things would have been a lot different. But his mother had taught him to believe that anything was possible, and he proved her right by becoming the determined and confident man he is today.

What if Obama had been born in 1951?
He would have attended a black?s only kindergarten. Until 1954, black children in some states of United States of America could not attend the same schools as white children. That year, the Supreme Court finally banned separated schools for black children.

He would have had to give up his seat and stand on the public bus every time a white passenger needed one. In 1955, in Montgomery, Tennessee, a black woman called Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat. Those days, black people and white people had to sit separately in public buses. It was segregation, and Rosa was protesting against this. She was arrested and almost 50,000 black people showed their support by not using the bus services, and walking or cycling to work for a whole year. In the end, the government lost so much money that it put an end to segregation in buses.

He would have felt like a second ?class citizen of the United States of America. In 1963, a black priest called Martin Luther King, Jr. made his famous? I Have a Dream ?Speech King had led 300,000 protestors to the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C., to demand that blacks should have equal rights at work. The government gave in and passed a law the next year granting his demands.