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Obama's father left the family when Obama was two and, after further studies at Harvard University, returned to Kenya, where he died in an automobile accident nineteen years later. After his parents divorced, Obama's mother married another foreign student at the University of Hawaii, Lolo Soetoro of Indonesia.

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From age six through ten, Obama lived with his mother and stepfather in Indonesia, where he attended Catholic and Muslim schools. While Obama was in school, his mother divorced Soetoro, returned to Hawaii to study cultural anthropology at the university, and then went back to Indonesia to do field research. Living with his grandparents, Obama was a good but not outstanding student at Punahou.

He read deeply and widely about political and international affairs, graduating from Columbia with a political science major in A movie version of his Columbia years, Barry , was released in After spending an additional year in New York as a researcher with Business International Group, a global business consulting firm, Obama accepted an offer to work as a community organizer in Chicago's largely poor and black South Side.

Obama's main assignment as an organizer was to launch the church-funded Developing Communities Project and, in particular, to organize residents of Altgeld Gardens to pressure Chicago's city hall to improve conditions in the poorly maintained public housing project. In , Obama enrolled at Harvard Law School, where he excelled as a student, graduating magna cum laude and winning election as president of the prestigious Harvard Law Review for the academic year As the first African American president in the long history of the law review, Obama drew widespread media attention and a contract from Random House to write a book about race relations.

The book, Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance , turned out to be mostly a personal memoir, focusing in particular on his struggle to come to terms with his identity as a black man raised by whites in the absence of his African father. He wooed her ardently as memorialized in another movie, Southside with You , and after a four-year courtship they married in The Obamas settled in Chicago's racially integrated, middle-class Hyde Park neighborhood, where their first daughter, Malia Ann, was born in and their second daughter, Natasha called Sasha , was born in After directing Illinois Project Vote, a voter registration drive aimed at increasing black turnout in the election, Obama accepted positions as an attorney with the civil rights law firm of Miner, Barnhill and Galland and as a lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School.

When Palmer's congressional campaign faltered, she decided to run for reelection instead.