Was There an African American President Before Barack Obama? Question Someone that I know has been posting that Barack Obama is not the first African-American President, that indeed there was an …

Dec 15, 2020 · The belief that the first president of the United States was Black stems from confusing two historical figures with the same name.

Feb 19, 2024 · Perhaps the biggest reason for the record-setting enthusiasm of the 2008 presidential election is that Americans knew it would be electing its first Black president, Barack Obama. That …

Oct 31, 2022 · One man says there were seven Black presidents before Obama. The second man claims that all of the first seven U.S. presidents were Black men with interracial parentage. A third speaker …

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Aug 11, 2020 · Shared thousands of times on Facebook, posts claim that a man named “John Hansen,” rather than Barack Obama, was the first Black president of the U.S., that he was president before …

Presidents with African ancestry Barack Obama Barack Obama, who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017, had an African father and an American mother of mostly European …