Barack Obama: Working to Make a Difference
Born in Hawaii and brought up for a time in Indonesia, Barack Obama graduated from Columbia University with a degree in political science and a specialty in international relations. He worked as a community organizer in some of Chicago's toughest neighborhoods, helping church groups create job-training programs, before going on to Harvard Law School, where he graduated magna cum laude and served as the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review. After law school, Obama organized one of the largest voter registration drives in Chicago history to help Bill Clinton's election, and worked as a civil rights lawyer on cutting edge voting rights and employment discrimination cases in federal and state courts. Obama is known as a man who lives by his convictions and so highly thought of that his colleagues selected him to give the keynote address at the 2004 Democratic convention.
- Format
- paperback
- Pages
- 48
- Series
- Gateway Biographies
- Publisher
- Lerner Publications
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 9780822560562
- Genres
- historical, childrens, biography
- Release date
- 2006
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