President Barack Obama

Barack Obama is sworn in as America’s 44th president – and its first African-American leader – in a ceremony in Washington DC watched by millions around the world.

For older African-Americans who experienced the dark era of racial segregation in America, the election of Barack Obama represents an achievement that many did not even dare dream of.

President-elect Barack Obama will be sworn-in as 44th president of the
United States with the Bible that Abraham Lincoln used when he took the oath of
office more than a century ago. The Lincoln Bible is in the collection of the
Library of Congress and was shown to the media last December.