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Obama, Michelle

From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
US lawyer, community worker, and First Lady 2009–17. After her marriage in 1992 to Barack Obama she switched from her career as a corporate lawyer to a career in public service and community work in Chicago. In 2009, after Barack Obama's election as US president, she became the first African American First Lady. She was a higher profile First Lady than her predecessor, Laura Bush , and gave her husband strong campaigning support. As First Lady, she promoted a range of causes: support for military families, helping working women balance career and family, healthy eating, and fighting childhood obesity (the 2012 ‘Let's Move’ initiative). At the July 2016 Democratic National Convention she made an impassioned speech in support of the Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton . She was born and raised in Chicago's South Side, an area with a reputation for high levels of crime and poverty. Her father Fraser Robinson worked at a city water plant, and the family lived in a one-bedroom…
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On the night of November 4, 2008, Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama stood on a platform in Chicago's Grant Park with a crowd cheering her husband, who had just been elected the forty-fourth president of the United States. This was the beginning of an incredible journey—the first African American…
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The First Lady starting the White...
“I Try to Make It Me”: Michelle Obama 's White House Years Michele Obama is one of the most written about and reported on first ladies. While not definitive, a 2015 Google search is a good indication of media and social media coverage for very recent first ladies. A search with her name produced…
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Full text Article Michelle Obama (1964–)

From Trailblazing Women!: Amazing Americans Who Made History
Michelle Obama (1964–)
Attorney, First Lady The first African American first lady of the United States, the wife of Barack Obama, the forty-fourth president of the United States from 2009 to 2017, Michelle Obama was a lawyer, a Chicago city administrator, and a community outreach worker, who has become one of the most…
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Full text Article Michelle Obama (1964–)

From The American Women's Almanac: 500 Years of Making History
Michelle Obama (1964–)
The first African American first lady of the United States, the wife of Barack Obama, the fortyfourth president of the United States from 2009 to 2017, Michelle Obama was a lawyer, a Chicago city administrator, and a community outreach worker, who has become one of the most admired contemporary…
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Full text Article Obama, Michelle Robinson (b. 1964)

From From Suffrage to the Senate: America's Political Women
Obama, Michelle Robinson (b. 1964)
Michelle Obama was the nation's First Lady from 2009 to 2017, the years her husband Barack Obama served as President of the United States. The first African American First Lady, Michelle Obama is the great-great-granddaughter of slaves and one of the most accomplished first ladies in the nation's…
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US First Lady. A lawyer, she married Barack Obama (1992), who became President in 2009. I am desperate for change— now —not in eight years or twelve years, but right now. We don’t have time to wait. We need big change—not just the shifting of power among insiders. We need to change the game, because…
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Full text Article Michelle Obama 1964– 

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From The American Women's Almanac: 500 Years of Making History Full text Article Politics, Government, and the Law
Abigail Adams (1744–1818) Madeleine Albright (1937–) Cora Reynolds Anderson (1882–1950) Hattie Wyatt Caraway (1878–1950) Shirley Chisholm (1924–2005) Hillary Clinton (1947–) Geraldine Ferraro (1935–2011) …
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Full text Article Obama, Michelle

From Encyclopedia of Women and American Politics
Also known as: Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama (b. 1964–) first lady The first African-American first lady of the United States, Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama was born on January 17, 1964. She grew up in a working class family living in Chicago's South Side. Her father Fraser worked for the…
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Full text Article Obama, Michelle

From American Biographies: American Political Leaders
(b. 1964–) first lady, social activist Michelle Obama is the first African-American first lady of the United States. Among other roles, she has served as a lawyer, a community-outreach worker, and a Chicago city administrator. Born on January 17, 1964, Michelle Obama was raised on the South Side of…
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