Video: 29-Year-Old Obama Shares a Moment in Black History

By Samantha Abernethy in News on Nov 22, 2011 9:20PM

Barack Obama made this video for TBS 20 years ago, when he was a Harvard law student and editor of the Harvard Law Review in 1991. Does he look presidential already? He looks basically the same, but without the greys in his slightly longer hair. In this "Black History Minute" he features Charles Hamilton Houston, an attorney who made important strides to end segregation in the U.S. school system. He also trained would-be Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and has been nicknamed "The Man Who Killed Jim Crow."

By the way, in 2005, the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice was created at Harvard Law School.