Barack Obama:

On 2 Janauary Barack Obama  became America's 44th President... and the nation's firts black President.

Many Americans never imagined they wuold see a black President. only 50 years ago, Black leader Martin Luther King was fishing for equal rights for blacs. Until 1964, there was racial segregation in many southern states of the USA. Black and whites could no go to same schools or the same shops. Things have changed a lot!