Michelle Obama
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Michelle Obama was born January 17, 1964. She is the wife of Barack Obama and will be the first African American to become the First Lady of the United States. She was born and grew up on the South Side of Chicago and graduated from Princeton University and Harvard Law School.
Michelle met Barack when he joined the same law firm where she worked. They were married in October 1992 and have two daughters, Malia Ann and Natasha.
Martin Luther King, Jr (1929-1968)
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Martin Luther King, Jr was born January 15, 1929. He graduated from Morehouse College in Atlanta, GA in 1948. In 1953 King married Coretta Scott in Marion, Ala. They had four children: Yolanda, Martin III, Dexter, and Bernice.
King most famous speech is called ” I Have A Dream.” He spoke to 250,000 people in the March on Washington on August 28, 1963.
King was assassinated in Memphis, Tenn. by James Earl Ray in 1968. On January 20, 1986 the United States celebrated King’s birthday as a holiday for the first time.
Topics: Civil Rights, Men
Barack Obama
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Barack Obama was born August 4, 1961. He is the first African American to be elected President of the United States. This historic win made him the forty-fourth U.S. President.
Obama worked as a community organizer and practiced as a civil rights attorney in Chicago before serving three terms in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004. In 2004, he was elected to be the junior United States Senator from Illinois.
He is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School.