2 chapters across the catalog
Barack Obama's 2004 keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in Boston is identified as his breakout moment. The segment highlights how he engaged with the first-ever credentialed bloggers at a convention and how he quickly achieved a level of fame comparable to Martin Luther King Jr. or Michael Jordan. The older generation viewed his rise as the culmination of the Civil Rights Movement.
Congressman Adam Clayton Powell used Bayard Rustin's 1953 arrest for "lewd vagrancy" as leverage to force Martin Luther King Jr. to distance himself from Rustin. Powell threatened to leak a false story about a sexual affair between King and Rustin to prevent them from protesting the Democratic National Convention. The conflict was driven by political power and concerns over Rustin's former ties to the Communist Party.
