Main goal of the work is to make an attempt to find the answer to the question: Why did American people elect the African American as their 44th president after so many racial prejudices and turbulent two hundred and more years in terms of racism? This work tries to analyze the complexity of Race in American life from the political, social and economic perspectives, and study the stereotypes that historically existed towards the slavery and still exist towards the African Americans; It also deals with the leadership factor for African American community; analyzes and differentiates leadership styles of the twentieth century African American leaders and singles out main trends that led to the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and concentrates on civil rights generation of blacks, as well as other blacks who proceeded Barack Obama, paving the way for his acceptance.