President-elect Barack Obama will be the first black president to live in the White House — but not the first black person.
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Slaves helped construct the building. Black men and women worked in the White House as servers, cooks and maids, sometimes as property of U.S. presidents.
From that shameful past arose a proud tradition: the Butler Corps. Until recently, almost all the White House butlers were black. Lynwood Westray, who spent 32 years as a part-time butler in the White House, was part of that tradition.
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