![]() ![]() (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)Ģ1. and Japan, from the Treaty Room office in the residence of the White House, Sunday, July 17, 2011. President Barack Obama and his daughters Sasha and Malia watch the World Cup soccer game between the U.S. Another Harvard Law graduate, she was assigned as his mentor when he became a summer associate at the same corporate law firm she worked for. Obama was 27 when he met his future wife, Michelle LaVaughn Robinson. Obama’s mother died in Honolulu in 1995.Ģ0. In 2006 he won for his reading of “Dreams from My Father” in 2008 for the audio version of “The Audacity of Hope”.Īlso read: Interesting facts about Nelson Mandela Family Lifeġ9. He received two Grammies for Best Spoken Word Album of the Year. California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA. Barack Obama signing copies of his book “The Audacity of Hope” at the Urban Issues Breakfast Forum. Other books written by Barack Obama include “The Audacity of Hope” “Of Thee I Sing: A Letter to My Daughter” and “Change We Can Believe In”. “Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance” deals with his high school days in Hawaii.ġ7. Asked to write a book on race relations, he published his autobiography in 1995. He was an associate for three years (1993-1996) and an attorney for eight years until 2004.ġ6. He joined a Chicago law firm in 1993 that specialized in civil rights litigation. In 1993 Obama worked as the director of the Developing Communities Project, working with job training programs and tenant rights organizations.ġ5. While teaching he directed Illinois’ Project Vote in 1992, a voter registration campaign.ġ4. After graduation from Harvard Law in 1991, Obama taught constitutional law from 1992 to 2004 at the University of Chicago Law School.ġ3. He then moved to Chicago and worked as a community organizer for the Developing Communities Project, with the Roseland community and a public housing development on Chicago’s South Side.ġ2. During his work break, Obama worked a two-year stint in corporate market research at the New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG).ġ1. President Barack Obama hosts a press conference at the Pentagon in Washington, Aug. While at Harvard Law, he was the first ever African-American president of the Harvard Law Review. In 1988 he attended Harvard Law School, receiving his law degree magna cum laude in 1991.ĩ. He worked for five years before attending law school.Ĩ. After two years, he transferred to New York’s Columbia University, majored in political science and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1983. In 1981 he made his first public speech, urging the college to support the abolishment of apartheid in South Africa.ħ. After graduating from high school with honors, Obama attended Occidental College in Los Angeles in 1979. For his skill in basketball, he was known as “O’Bomber” in the elite private Punahou School where he first began to understand the tensions inherent in a mixed racial background. Barack Obama returned to Hawaii to live with his mother’s parents in 1971 and attend school. Ann remarried Lolo Soetoro and moved to Jakarta, Indonesia in the late 1960s where Obama learned to eat snake and dog meat plus roasted grasshopper and kept a pet ape named Tata.ĥ. He was killed in a car accident in 1982.Ĥ. Obama only saw his father once again, when he came to Hawaii in 1971. His parents, Stanley Ann Dunham and Barack Obama Sr. His name, Barack, means “one who is blessed” in Swahili. He is the first American president to be born outside the 48 contiguous states. was born on August 4, 1961, in Honolulu, Hawaii. ![]() Read on to discover 53 interesting facts about Barack Obama, both political and personal. Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States, holds a special place in history as the first African-American president of the country. ![]()
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