First Black Elected to Head Harvard's Law Review
(published: Feb. 6, 1990)
"..The new president of the Review is Barack Obama, a 28-year-old graduate of Columbia University who spent four years heading a community development program for poor blacks on Chicago's South Side before enrolling in law school. His late father, Barack Obama, was a finance minister in Kenya and his mother, Ann Dunham, is an American anthropologist now doing fieldwork in Indonesia. Mr. Obama was born in Hawaii...." http://goo.gl/4YTCx
A Law Review Breakthrough
(Published: Feb. 15, 1990)
"...Editor's note: In 1990, Globe reporter Linda Matchan and photographer Lane Turner interviewed 28-year-old Barack Obama, a Chicago community organizer who had just become the first African-American head of the Harvard Law Review. The following is an early glimpse of a rising star.
Barack Obama became the first black president of the influential Harvard Law Review last week, after a marathon 17-hour selection process that pitted him against 18 other candidates. But he says he felt the full significance of the honor only after a rival candidate, also black, embraced him....."
(Lane Turner / Globe File Photo)
Obama Named New Law Review President
Student Becomes First Black Chief Of the Publication
(Published: Feb. 6, 1990
"..Receiving support and praise from students and professors, Barack H. Obama was named the 104th president of the Harvard Law Review, becoming the legal journal's first Black leader..." http://goo.gl/DEKOR
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Timeline: 1960-2011
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Requirements fot the J.D. Degree - Harvard Law School
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Graduate Handbook
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Requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts - Columbia University
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An oldie:
"..Claim: Barack Obama's thesis for Columbia University, entitled "Aristocracy Reborn," noted that America's founding fathers "did not allow for economic freedom."...."
FALSE: http://goo.gl/kpoOw
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See also:
Barack Obama ’83 - Is He the New Face of The Democratic Party?
By Shira Boss-Bicak ’93
http://goo.gl/RVG5l
Alumni Corner: Barack Obama ’83, My Columbia College Roommate
By Phil Boerner ’84
http://goo.gl/HrbQe
Limbaugh falls for Obama thesis hoax - but is in no Rush to apologize
http://goo.gl/XEp4k
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