Chapter 40: First African American President
In my Humanities class, Equality, we finished our unit called, "History". In this unit we learned about the history of gender, race, and class. We discussed the meaning of the word "equality", and how it relates to the past vs. now. We also talked about privilege and how it is likely the more privilege you have, the less aware of it we are. I thoroughly enjoyed this unit of Equality. I liked how involved everyone was in the class discussions. It wasn't a hard topic to understand, but it was a lot to think about. For this Action Project, we had to create a chapter from a history textbook. I chose to do mine on Barack Obama's election because it was such an accomplishment in American history. Hope you enjoy! Barack Obama President Chapter 40: Election Barack Obama serves as our 44th President of the United States on November 4, 2008. In his victory speech he says, “Change has to come to America”. Sparking many celebrations, Obama was the first African Am...