Oprah Gail Winfrey
...ther passed away and Oprah was sent to her mother to live in Milwaukee, Illinois. During this time, Oprah was physically abused by her relatives. Till this day, Oprah suffers from the awful memories from the past. Just for attention, Oprah stole her mother’s purse, smashed her glasses and faked a robbery and Amnesia. At the age of 14, Oprah was sent to her father in Nashville. Oprah said her dad saved her life by providing her guidance, structure, curfew, rules and books. His weekly requirement/assignment for Oprah was for her to read a book and do book reports on the book she read that week. She also had to learn five vocabularies a night before she got to eat dinner. She joined her school’s drama and won a $1000 college scholarship after delivering the speech “The Negro, the Constitution, and the United States.” She also was the first African American woman to win Nashville’s Miss. Fire Prevention. In 1971, she was named Miss. Black Tennessee. Afterwards, she attended University of Tennessee and majored and has a degree in speech communication and theater. During college, Oprah was working as a co-anchor at CBS affiliate. After college she moved to Baltimore as an anchor for ABC Affiliate WJZ-TV. The station had sent Oprah for a make over to New York. In 1977, Oprah became the co-host of Baltimore is a Talking Show. After working in Baltimore for seven years she...