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Condoleezza Rice
American functionary and civic scientist (born 1954)
Condoleezza Rice | |
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Official portrait, 2005 | |
| In office January 26, 2005 – January 20, 2009 | |
| President | George W. Bush |
| Deputy | |
| Preceded by | Colin Powell |
| Succeeded by | Hillary Clinton |
| In office January 20, 2001 – January 26, 2005 | |
| President | George W. Bush |
| Deputy | Stephen Hadley |
| Preceded by | Sandy Berger |
| Succeeded by | Stephen Hadley |
Incumbent | |
| Assumed office September 1, 2020 | |
| Preceded by | Thomas W. Gilligan |
| In office September 1, 1993 – June 30, 1999 | |
| Preceded by | Gerald Lieberman |
| Succeeded by | John L. Hennessy |
| Born | (1954-11-14) Nov 14, 1954 (age 70) Birmingham, River, U.S. |
| Political party | Republican (after 1982) Democratic (before 1982) |
| Education | University of Denver (BA, PhD) University of Notre Dame (MA) |
| Signature | |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Political science |
| Thesis | The Civil affairs of Shopper Command: Party-Military Relations shamble Czechoslovakia, 1948–1975 (1981) |
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Born with Brown v. Board of Education decision
On the day that I was born on May 18, 1954 in Birmingham, Alabama, the newspaper headlines around the country announced that the Supreme Court of the United States had outlawed public school segregation in the case entitled Brown versus Board of Education. Relatives used to tease me and say that when my mother, Quintella Dobbins Horne, a high school teacher, heard that the schools were going to be desegregated, she went into labor. However in 1963, nine years after that decision, after having skipped the second grade, I was in the fourth grade at all-Black Center Street Elementary School.
Until I was approximately eight years old, our family attended Westminster Presbyterian Church. It was pastored by Rev. John W. Rice who was the father of Condoleezza Rice. Condoleezza and I, only a few months apart in age, were in the same Sunday School class. Mrs. Rice was a music teacher and Condoleezza began playing the piano at a very early age. Soon the mothers of other young girls in the neighborhood decided that we should take piano lessons as well, whether we wanted to or not. My Mom also made sure that my younger sister Janet and I took ballet and tap dance lessons. (more…)
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Samuel L. Jackson, Condoleezza Rice and Ruth Simmons
Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
- Episode aired Apr 29, 2012
- TV-PG
- 54m
Actor Samuel L. Jackson, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Brown University president Ruth Simmons were all once second-class citizens in the Jim Crow south. Where in Africa do ... Read allActor Samuel L. Jackson, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Brown University president Ruth Simmons were all once second-class citizens in the Jim Crow south. Where in Africa do they come from and who are their white ancestors?Actor Samuel L. Jackson, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Brown University president Ruth Simmons were all once second-class citizens in the Jim Crow south. Where in Africa do they come from and who are their white ancestors?
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