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SEN. BARACK OBAMA DELIVERS REMARKS AT A MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. DAY EVENT.

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SEN. OBAMA DELIVERS REMARKS AT A MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. DAY EVENT, COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA

JANUARY 21, 2008

SPEAKER: SEN. BARACK OBAMA, D-ILL.

[*] OBAMA: Thank you so much. I love you back. Thank you.

Giving all praise and honor to God for making this beautiful, if a little chilly, day. I want to thank Dr. Lonnie Randolph for his outstanding leadership. I want to thank Herbert Fielding, Jim Felder and I.S. Levy Johnson, the first African-Americans elected to the legislature after Reconstruction.

I want to thank Councilwoman Tamika Isaac Devine, first American- American woman elected to the Columbia City Council.

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