The next generation: Illinois' Barack Obama is just the most visible of a new breed of African American leaders with ambitions their forbears couldn't have imagined.(Dispatches)
American Prospect, The, August, 2004 by Franke-Ruta, Garance
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"BOY, THIS IS REALLY STANDING-ROOM only," complained a man outside the AFL-CIO hall in Peoria, Illinois, on a bright Tuesday morning in late June. U.S. Senate candidate Barack Obama was set to start speaking soon to the diverse crowd, and a line of people dozens deep wended its way into the packed union hall. They'd come to see the man most political observers think is destined to be the next senator from Illinois, and only the third black senator since Reconstruction.
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And see him they would: Obama was hard to avoid on the news that day. His opponent, Republican ...
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