A coalition of Asian-American groups led by activist Deepa Iyer recently met United States President Barack Obama to urge him to support family reunification....
I was born in India, moved to Kentucky at 12, then I went to school in the South—Vanderbilt University and then law school in Northern Indiana.
Barack Obama’s Early Life
Obama’s father, also named Barack Hussein Obama, grew up in a small village in Nyanza Province, Kenya, as a member of the Luo ethnicity. He won a scholarship to study economics at the University of Hawaii, where he met and married Ann Dunham, a white woman from Wichita, Kansas, whose father had worked on oil rigs during the Great Depression and fought with the U.S.
Army in World War II before moving his family to Hawaii in 1959. Barack and Ann’s son, Barack Hussein Obama Jr., was born in Honolulu on August 4, 1961.
Did you know? Not only was Obama the first African American president, he was also the first to be born outside the continental United States.
“It is a sort of growth of political consciousness,” says Deepa Iyer, executive director of South Asian Americans Leading Together (Saalt).Obama was born in Hawaii in 1961.
Obama’s parents later separated, and Barack Sr. went back to Kenya. He would see his son only once more before dying in a car accident in 1982. Ann remarried in 1965.
She and her new husband, an Indonesian man named Lolo Soetoro, moved with her young son to Jakarta