Interesting facts about michelle obama

In her early legal career, she worked at the law firm Sidley Austin where she met her future husband.

Michelle obama early life

She subsequently worked in nonprofits and as the associate dean of Student Services at the University of Chicago. Later, she served as vice president for community and external affairs of the University of Chicago Medical Center. Michelle married Barack in , and they have two daughters. Obama campaigned for her husband's and presidential campaigns.

She was the first African-American woman to serve as first lady. As first lady, Obama worked as an advocate for poverty awareness, education, nutrition, physical activity, and healthy eating. Some of Obama's paternal family still reside in the Georgetown area. Among her maternal ancestors was her great-great-great-grandmother, Melvinia Dosey Shields, [ 10 ] born into slavery in South Carolina but sold to Henry Walls Shields, who had a acre farm in Clayton County, Georgia , near Atlanta.

Melvinia's first son, Adolphus T. Shields, was biracial and born into slavery around Based on DNA and other evidence, in , researchers said his father was likely year-old Charles Marion Shields, son of Melvinia's master. They may have had a continuing relationship, as she had two more mixed-race children and lived near Shields after emancipation, taking his surname she later changed her surname.

As was often the case, Melvinia did not talk to relatives about Dolphus's father. They were great-great-grandparents of Robinson, whose grandparents had moved to Chicago. All four of Robinson's grandparents had multiracial ancestors, reflecting the complex history of the United States.