Condoleeza Rice

Biography
Condoleeza Rice was born Nov. 14th, 1954 in Birmingham, Alabama. Her father was dean of Stillman College as well as a minister and her mother taught music and science at a local high school. Growing up around education, Rice has always been a little ahead of the others. By the age of three, she began reading as well as taking lessons in piano, figure skating and French. She was in eighth grade by age 11.
Although Rice’s parents tried to armor her from racism, she lived in a world restricted by the “Jim-Crow laws” of the Deep South. Her father preached of “fighting racial injustice with your mind” rather than being an active participant in the Civil Rights Movement. Rice herself, knew better than to get involved. She used her faith as well as “education as a tool of liberation.” Still, at the snap of a finger Rice recalls memories such as being ushered to remote dressing rooms and losing peers in the 1963 Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing.
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