Barrack Obama? well that's the only African American president in the US..
On March 4,1881, James Garfield's mother was the first woman to attend her son's inauguration as US president.
According to Wikipedia, there was four and are listed below: * John Adams did not attend Jefferson's inauguration. * John Quincy Adams did not attend Jackson's inauguration. * Andrew Johnson did not attend Grant's inauguration. * Richard Nixon left Washington, DC before his resignation took effect, and did not attend Ford's inauguration.
African Americans were not allowed to attend school in the 1800s because of their skin color.
At President Obama's 2009 Inauguration, Former Presidents Carter, Bush Sr., Clinton & George W. Bush attended. For the 2013 Inauguration, George H.W. Bush was too ill to attend, and his son George W. also was not there. Presidents Clinton and Carter did attend however.
The tradition of attending a morning worship service on Inauguration Day began with Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933. Franklin Roosevelt was not the first President to attend church on Inauguration Day, however. In 1789, George Washington attended a service at St. Paul's Chapel in New York City immediately following his swearing-in ceremony.
George Washington, otherwise a rich man by the standards of his time, was so land-poor that he had to borrow money in order to travel to his 1787 inauguration in New York.
Emancipation Proclamation
doubt it
he encouraged African Americans to attend the best colleges and demand equal treatment immediately.
Women did not attend the Constitutional Convention, nor did whites who did not own property. Free African-Americans were also not in attendance.
Yes, seven of the nine did meet the president and attended his first inauguration. Two, Melba Beals and Elizabeth Eckford, were unable to attend due to illness.
about 2 million people were expected to attend Obama's inauguration