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Barack Obama is elected as the first African American President of the United States (November 4th, 2008)

First Black President of the United States

Barack Obama is elected as the 44th president of the United States.

Alice Walker, Pulitzer Prize Winning Author born

February 9, 1944

Alice Walker, the Pulitzer Prize Winning Author of the Color Purple born in Eatonton, Georgia.

In 1983, The Color Purple won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, making Walker the first African-American woman to win, as well as the National Book Award.

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