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There was a lot of anger and tension and division in the community about that because in the african american community, politicians believe that you should always wait your turn, and many voters feel that way too. >> i think obama came to chicago with the thought and the ambition of getting into politics. >> he was extremely ambitious. nobody writes a book about their life when they're 30 years old, unless he's got a plan. >> it was when i started doing project vote in 1992 that i came to appreciate the need for a more effective political movement within the african american community. i repr...

Product of the chicago public school system, going on off to outstanding schools, princeton and harvard. and i was so blown away by her. i offered her a job on the spot. >> i told him the firm was interested in hiring him. and he shared with me that he had had this contract to write a book. and he said to me, you know, i don't want to start working while i'm doing this. it'll be a distraction. i'd rather finish the book so that i could really roll up my sleeves and practice law. >> i had graduated from law school in 1991, and i'd been fortunate enough to get a contract to write a series of ess...

Registered to vote in the chicago area. >> all the programs are out right now saying you should vote. i've been listening to them and now it's time to make a stand. >> project vote had a lot of grassroots people active in getting people signed up to vote. and they were very successful doing it. and i hope that my election opened up doors for women, for people of color, for people from working class backgrounds. i hope that it cut through some of these barriers. >> do you have any plans to run for political office? >> you know, not at the moment. i've only been married a year, and so i need to ...

Looking back at Barack Obama's formative years as he navigates his biracial identity in his hometown of Chicago, his upbringing with his mother, who was a...

From illinois and the only one in the senate generally. >> average citizens, working people, women, minorities don't have a voice there right now. and so my election will make a radical difference by virtue of giving voice to those interests and those concerns. >> about two weeks later, carol moseley braun won the democratic senate nomination. and at that point, i realized that this presented an opportunity in illinois to enfranchise and engage a lot of african american voters that previously had not been involved. >> on the line with me from chicago is barack obama, state director of illinois...