HIST-H 106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Illinois Senate, Community Organizing, The New Yorker
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Born in hawaii in 1961 to a white mother and a black father, who was from kenya. For a time as a young boy he lived with mother and stepfather in indonesia but later raised by his mother"s parents in hawaii. Later he attended occidental college in la and graduated from columbia university. Emigrated in 1850 from moneygall, ireland to ohio. Built a log cabin, moved to indiana and kansas. Chicago is key: takes position at university of chicago law school and gets involved with local politics. While a professor writes a personal memoir: dreams from my father (1995) Gets involved with community organizing in city. Dream of my father; a story of race and inheritance. Obama tells his life story up to that point as one of a struggle with personal identity and race. Not sure of his role models since he is black but raised and loved by white grandparents as a teen.
