The Frazier family visits the Martin Luther King Memorial on Sunday, Jan. 21, 2013. From left: Semaja Frazier, 12 (in purple); Asia Wright, 16; Bryan Jackson, 12; McKinley Wright, 14; and matriarch Pamela Frazier.
Crowds fill the National Mall to watch the ceremonial swearing-in of President Barack Obama at the U.S. Capitol during the 57th Presidential Inauguration in Washington, Monday, Jan. 21, 2013. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
The Fraziers finally are able to get into the gate at this second checkpoint. | Maudlyne Ihejirika~Sun-Times
While waiting in one line, Asia Wright, 16 and her grandmother, Pamela Frazier see a Martin Luther King painting that the vendor is allowing photos with, for a price. They walk over and take the bait, while the others hold their place in line. | Maudlyne Ihejirika~Sun-Times
Pamela Frazier, right, in green coat, and her grandchildren, right to left next to Pamela, Asia Wright, 16, in red coat, Semaja Frazier, 12 in hooded ruff, McKinley Wright, 14, and Brian Jackson, 12, in front, wait for hours with thousands of others to get into the National Mall without tickets. | Maudelyne Ihejirika~Sun-Times
WASHINGTON — All roads this past weekend have led to this — a 4 a.m. wake-up call for the Frazier family and their group of 98 bus travelers from Chicago and northwestern Indiana on Inauguration Day. They must leave their Harrisburg, Pa., hotel for Washington, D.C., at 4:45 a.m. to account for the three-hour ride. It would then be a three-mile walk. The march to the National Mall begins. The Frazier grandkids stop to gawk or buy the souvenirs from vendors selling everything Obama — from buttons and T-shirts to iPhone covers and a limited edition Obama dancing bear, grooving … Read More
