Condoleezza rice short biography for kids

Spoken about as the most influential woman in global politics, Condoleezza Rice was secretary of state to U.S. president George W. Bush.

Condi, as she was fondly called by her friends, was born in 1954 on November 14 in Birmingham, Alabama.

She was an only child. Her father John Wesley Rice, was a Presbyterian minister and dean and her mother, Angelena Rice, a high school teacher. Condoleezza Rice went to St. Mary’s Academy, which was an all-girls catholic high school.

She believed that her interest- and career choice in politics came from her family’s political discussions they had when she was growing up.

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A Youth filled with Achievements

Education and academic achievement were important to her parents and they kept telling their young daughter her that she could do anything she set her mind to. She was a go-getter from an early age, taking piano lessons at the age of 3.

She learned how to play the classi