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Barack Obama is our Next President!
Thanks to all the
amazing
authors & illustrators
who supported AIC's campaign.
A dream come true.
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We have more dreams coming soon.
Our New Campaign!
THIS I DREAM
What world will we create for the next generation? What vision will guide our decisions?
Celebrated Authors & Artists share their dreams for our children. Join us in making their dreams a reality.
...for Our Vote
Dream #1 by Bruce Coville
Dream #2 by David LaRochelle
Art by Bob Staake
I've Been Waiting Forty Years
It's hard for anyone who wasn't there to understand what 1968 was like. Even harder, perhaps, to understand what it was like to come of age in the late 60's. It was a time of enormous hope, unbelievable possibility, and crushing loss. I was seventeen the night Martin Luther King was assassinated, and I can still remember the pain of hearing that news. And I was a white kid in the north, so my pain was as nothing compared to that of the folk who were really invested in him. I remember where I was the morning I heard that Bobby Kennedy was assassinated. I remember the insanity of the 1968 Democratic convention when Eugene McCarthy, the first politician to whom I gave my heart, was shoved aside so the political machine could continue with Hubert Humphrey, a once great man who had been compromised by his loyalty to Lyndon Johnson, a once great man made insane by the trap of the Vietnam War.
