Inauguration+2009

=Inauguration 2009=

==== [|**Video Library Player: The Road Paved From Tuskegee**]A great video from //The New York Times// The Tuskegee Airmen, the all-black force of pilots during World War II, helped persuade President Harry S. Truman to desegregate the military in 1948. They have been invited to Barack Obama's inauguration on Jan. 20. ==== ====  ==== ===  === [|**Video Library Player: Inaugurations in Times of Peril**] This is a link to an interesting video from [|The New York Times]. This would be interesting to watch after the speech to see how Obama's words fare in comparison.  An interactive from the //The New York Times// ( Do you notice a pattern here?) that shows in word cloud format the [|key concepts of the inauguration addresses] from all the presidents. Really interesting to examine and good discussion material. 

**Elizabeth Alexander****
A [|PBS interview] with Elizabeth Alexander talking about her plan for the inauguration poem and its message. She is only the fourth poet ever asked to recite at an inauguration, and it is a daunting task to realize the importance of your message and the size of your audience. .
 * -** The woman chosen by Obama as share a poem after his inaugural speech.

Letters to the President-Elect

 * EPals** - hosted a [|letter-writing contest] open to students from around the world to send a message about an issue that concerns them. This link not only features the winners, but links to other submissions as well as a video from a school in Kenya.

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