Obama stresses responsibility to civil rights movement

US Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama received a proud welcome from the annual NAACP convention, but in a stirring speech to the nation’s oldest civil rights organisation, he nonetheless insisted blacks must show greater responsibility for improving their own lives.

Obama stresses responsibility to civil rights movement

US Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama received a proud welcome from the annual NAACP convention, but in a stirring speech to the nation’s oldest civil rights organisation, he nonetheless insisted blacks must show greater responsibility for improving their own lives.

Mr Obama, the son of a black father and white mother who could become the first president with African-American ancestry, urged Washington to provide more education and economic assistance.

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