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Obama Salutes Old Guard In NAACP Speech

by Audie Cornish, NPR
July 15, 2008

Democratic White House hopeful Barack Obama spoke Monday at the NAACP convention in Cincinnati, reiterating his message calling for more personal responsibility from blacks. The task for Obama was to connect the group's civil rights legacy to his own ambitions.

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