PHOTO GALLERY: Columbia celebrates the inauguration
Tuesday, January 20, 2009 | 7:15 p.m. CST
BY Missourian staff
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People made time to mark the special occasion.
Local Democratic Party volunteers sold campaign memorabilia on Tuesday evening at the Blue Note's Tatters to Tuxedos Inaugural Ball in Columbia.
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Barbie Reid shows her photo composite poster to Patsy Johnson of Jefferson City as Vicki Hobbs looks on. Johnson liked the poster so much that she decided to buy one for herself.
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Ann Breidenbach helps her young friend Nora Hargett pick out an Obama button at the Blue Note's "Tatters to Tuxedos" Inauguration Ball in Columbia on Tuesday evening.
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Daryl Kirkland-Morgan, left, and Lauren Grant listen to singer Beyonce's performance as part of the Obamas' Neighborhood Ball, an inaugural celebration featuring performances as well as the First Couple's dance. The broadcast was shown on the big screen as part of the Gaines/Oldham Black Culture Center's inaugural celebration festivities Tuesday night at MU.
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Sarah Scanlan of Columbia watches the inauguration ceremony of Barack Obama in Memorial Union at MU. Scanlan was frustrated by the poor broadcast quality. "This . . . is miserable," Scanlan said. "I'm really disappointed that the university couldn't set this up properly. There's a reason why nobody is here. Because this is useless."
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At a watch party for Barack Obama's inauguration ceremony at the Reynolds Journalism Institute at MU, students, faculty and staff watch as Joe Biden takes the oath of office for vice president.
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Students, faculty and staff gather at a watch party for Barack Obama's inauguration ceremony at the Reynolds Journalism Institute at MU.
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Eric Wright, right, and Billy Herbert applaud after Barack Obama took the presidential oath of office. They attended a watch party for the inauguration ceremony at the Reynolds Journalism Institute at MU.
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Sue Cross watches Tuesday's inauguration on TV at Nephew's Nite Life as President Barack Obama delivers his speech. Nephew's Nite Life hosted an inauguration party sponsored by Columbia's African-American community, Nephew's, the Frederick Douglass Coalition and Black Business of Columbia.
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Alana Flowers sat among a crowd of onlookers at MU's Gaines-Oldham Black Cultural Center for the inauguration and the speech by President Barack Obama. She, like several other students there, skipped class to watch the event. "I thought it was beautiful. It was the first time I'd seen something like this."
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Dorothy Addae did not find the inauguration of a black leader as novel as many in the room. Her family is originally from Ghana and she has become accustomed to seeing black leadership. "Seeing this change of power in peace is kind of nice," compared to the non-peaceful changes in Africa, she said.
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People gathered together in MU's Gaines/Oldham Black Culture Center to witness the inauguration of President Barack Obama on Tuesday.
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Lauren Grant sits front and center to watch the inauguration of President Barack Obama at MU's Gaines/Oldham Black Culture Center.
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