He worked as a lawyer, helping poor people who had been treated unfairly. He did very well in law school.Īfter he was done with school, Barack moved back to Chicago and in 1992 he married Michelle. Then he left Chicago to go to Harvard Law School in Cambridge. At work, he met a lawyer named Michelle Robinson. He went back many times over the years to visit with his family and learn about where he came from. He travelled to Africa to meet his grandmother and cousins for the first time. He studied politics.Īfter college, he moved to Chicago where he worked to help poor people in his city. After two years in L.A., he transferred to a University in New York City. There, he started to learn about his African roots and decided to use his African name, Barack. In 1979, after he finished high school, Barry went to college in Los Angeles, California. Barry earned good grades and played on his high school basketball team. His family felt that the best thing they could do for Barry was to give him a good education, so they worked hard to pay for his school. He went to an expensive private school even though his family didn’t have much money to pay for it. Growing up, Barry enjoyed spending time on the beach, fishing and bodysurfing. He called them Gramps and Toot, and he was very close with them and his sister. When she went away, Barry lived with his grandparents. Her job was studying how farmers lived and how their lives could be made better. Soon, Barry’s mother had to go back to Indonesia to work. Right after she was born, Barry’s mother got divorced, and Barry, his mother, and his new baby sister moved back to Hawaii. While they were in Indonesia, his mother had another baby. They had many pets, including baby crocodiles and a gibbon, which is a type of monkey. In 1967, when Barry was six years old, his mother married a student from Indonesia and they moved to Indonesia with him. After his dad finished college, he went back to Kenya, leaving his mother to take care of Barry.
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