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Dream in ActionDream in Action

Barack Hussein

Obama was born Aug. 4, 1961,

in Honolulu, Hawaii

Father• Barack Obama,

Sr., was born of Luo ethnicity in Nyanza Province, Kenya.

• He grew up herding goats with his own father, who was a domestic servant to the British

Mother

• Ann Dunham, grew up in Wichita, Kansas.

• Her father worked on oil rigs during the Depression.

• Dunham’s mother went to work on a bomber assembly line.

Early LifeEarly Life

• Parents separated before he was born, and Obama moved to Hawaii with his mother

• When he was six Obama’s mother remarried an Indonesian oil manager and they moved to Jakarta

•Later returned to Hawaii •Raised largely by his grandparents, who were an insurance agents and a furniture salesman.

•He was enrolled in the fifth grade at the esteemed Punahou Academy•Graduated with honors in 1979•He was only one of three black students at the school

The only time his father visited was

when Barack was in 5th grade.

Road to Road to GloryGlory

College

• Studied at  Occidental College in Los Angeles for two years

• Transferred to Columbia University in New York, and Graduated in 1983 with a degree in political science.

•Spent four years as a community organizer in Chicago

•After four years returned to college at Harvard•Became first black

President of the Harvard Review•Graduated Magna Cum Laude in 1991

Marriage

• Met Michelle Robinson, a fellow Harvard graduate in 1988

• Married in 1992

After College

• Returned to Chicago and worked a civil rights lawyer

• Taught at the University of Chicago Law School.

• Helped organize voter registration drives during Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign.

Senator• Ran and won for

Illinois State Senate seat in 1996

• Served as chairman of the Public Health and Welfare Committee.

• After serving eight years, was elected as a Democrat to the U.S. Senate

Keynote Speech

• Chosen to deliver a keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention

• Noted Line-“There's not a liberal America and a conservative America; there's the United States of America.”

• Increased status and popularity

Author Extraordinaire• Dreams from My

Father, published in 1995 is a memoir of his youth and early career.

• The Audacity of Hope, published in 2006

• Won a Grammy for the Audio book of Dreams from My Father

Father Extraordinaire• Has two

daughters Malai (10) and Sasha (7)

• They get $1 allowance a week

Making History

• Ran for President of the U.S. against Senator John McCain in the 2008 election

• Won by 192 electoral votes

• First African American elected President

100 Days of ChangeDuring Obama’s First 100 days in office,

he…• ordered the closure of the Guantanamo

Bay military prison and a troop withdrawal from Iraq

• extended healthcare coverage to millions of children

• ousted the head of General Motors• moved to ease tensions with Cuba• set aside huge tracts of wilderness for

federal protection

The day of reckoning has arrived, and the time to

take charge of our future is here.

- Barack Obama in his first address to Congress