(At left) Malik Weldon, 10, is singing and dancing to "This Land Is My Land," bundled to keep warm. The principal of Daily Day Academy in the Bronx, NY, brought a group of students as part of their living history curriculum.
Arminta Crosby from Alexandria, Virginia, puts a hat on the head of Judd Fischer's 3-year-old son, Finn, when she saw he didn't have anything on his head. "No matter what, we gotta look out for the little ones," she said.
Doreen Bryant, 43, reacts to Obama's Inaugural Address while perched on a sign in the National Mall next to Elizabeth Owens, 55, from Lexington, Kentucky. The two just met during the swearing-in ceremony. "It's very igniting," Bryant said, "everyones been nice and calm. This is our new sunshine state."
Alton Walker described his childhood in a shotgun house and a 2-room schoolhouse in Homer, Louisiana. "We called it po- we couldn't afford the last 2 letters." He remembers using the side entrance to Dairy Queen, sitting on the balcony at the picture house, and drinking from Colored water fountains. He is now a proud parent of a Harvard student. He drove to the inauguration from Dayton, Ohio with a picture of his granddaddy, Chris Cunningham. He said his granddaddy's greatest source of pride was that "he lived to be 85 and no white man ever laid hand or foot to him - in those days that was something to be proud of." Walker called Obama's inauguration "The flip side to the coin of American history."
Diemiruaya Deniran's two-man street vending team was selling buttons to e money for a bookstore in Brooklyn called All Eyes In Egypt Books and Things, which also sponsors charity work in West Africa through the Golden Ankh Global Foundation Authority.
