Autobiography Of Barack Obama
President Barack Obama is the forty-fourth President of the United States. He was born on August 4, 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii. His full name is Barrack Hussein Obama. He was born to white American mother, Ann Dunham, and Kenyan father, Barack Obama Sr. His parents met and married when they were young students at the University of Hawaii. |
Young Barrack was mostly brought up by his maternal grandparents. They lived in a small apartment. His grandfather was a furniture salesman, and his grandmother worked in a bank. Barack studied in Punahoou School, which was considered as one of the top schools of Hawaii. Obama attended Columbia University in New York where he witnessed blatant racial discriminations. He later attended the Harvard Law School, and in 1990 became the first African American editor for the college.
He started practicing law as a civil rights lawyer in a Chicago based law firm. He also taught law in the Chicago Law School. During the early years in his career, he fought for people who were discriminated and denied housing and employment on account of their race. He also fought for the voting rights legislation, and worked to enhance the rights of the common people.
Later, he ran as a Democrat for the State Senate from the district and won the elections. In 2004 he was elected as the U.S. Senate, and represented Illinois. He won national acclaim with his speech at the National Convention in Boston. In 2008, he won the Presidential election, and became the forty-fourth president of the United States. He is also the first African American President in the country’s history to get elected to the White House.
Barack Obama not only changed the face of politics, but also demonstrated that equal rights for all can be achieved.
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