Barack Obama Research Paper

Barack Obama Sr. grew up in a small village in Kenya where he spent his primary, intermediate, and secondary education; at the age of 18, he got married and had two children. Obama Sr. would write letters “pleading for financial aid from universities and foundations across the Atlantic.” He was said to be an ambitious young man. So in 1959, he left his wife and two children for a scholarship at the University of Hawaii. He would be the University’s first black student.

It was at the University that he met Stanley Ann Dunham. Despite the obvious differences in their personalities and the fact that Obama Sr. already had a wife and children back in Kenya, the two fell in love and got married a year later – she was already pregnant. They would become parents to who would later become the United States’ first black president.

Barrack Hussein Obama II was born on the 4th of August 1961, six months after his parents’ marriage, at Kapiʻolani Maternity & Gynecological Hospital in the then two-year-old US state of Honolulu, Hawaii.

While the young Obama was still two, Obama Sr. once again put his ambition before his family as he left for a scholarship at

Returning from Kenya, Obama entered Harvard Law School where he would later become an editor of the Harvard Law Review in his first year, it’s president in his second year, and a research assistant to the scholar, Laurence Tribe. He also worked as a summer associate at the Sidney Austin law firms in Chicago where he would meet Michelle Robinson, a young lawyer, immersed in the issue of race, who was assigned to be his adviser. In 1990, Obama became the first black president of the Harvard Law Review, making news nationally. The publicity led to him publishing a personal memoir later on as the “Dreams from My Father.” He graduated a magna cum laude from Harvard Law School in