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In 1954, Condoleeza Rice professor, diplomat and national security expert, was born in Birmingham, Alabama. In 1974, at the age of 19, Rice earned her Bachelor’s Degree in political science, Phi Beta Kappa, from the University of Denver. In 1975 she earnedher master’s degree from the University of Notre Dame. She served as the 66th United States Secretary of State, and was the second person to hold that office in the administration of President George W. Bush.
Rice was the first African-American woman secretary of state, as well as the second African American (after Colin Powell), and the second woman (after Madeleine Albright).

Rice has written numerous articles and several books on international relations and foreign affairs, including Germany Unified and Europe Transformed: A Study in Statecraft, with Philip Zelikow (Harvard University Press, 1995). She has authored and coauthored several books, includingalso Extraordinary, Ordinary People: A Memoir of Family (2010), Germany Unified and Europe Transformed: A Study in Statecraft (1995), with Philip Zelikow, The Gorbachev Era (1986), with Alexander Dallin, and Uncertain Allegiance: The Soviet Union and the Czechoslovak Army (1984). 
She's currently a professor at Stanford University.

"Education is your armour for whatever comes against you."

Condoleeza Rice

Watch this video about Rice's stance on education and why her father did not march  with Dr. King.

The Daily Show - Condoleezza Rice Pt. 1
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condoleezza_Rice
http://www.hoover.org/fellows/10078
http://www.hoover.org/news/press-releases/29313
http://todayinafricanamericanhistory.com/african-american-history (retrieved on November 14, 2010)