Condoleezza Rice Timeline

Condoleezza Rice was born in 1954 in Birmingham, Alabama. Her parents are named Angelina and John Rice.

She moves to Denver and begins her love and passion for ice skating. She also attended St. Mary's an all girl Catholic school that Condoleezza didn't like that much.

This was a particularly sad and scary time in America, especially for African Americans. Just a few years earlier, the The Birmingham church bombing occurred on September 15, 1963. This was very impactful to Condoleezza because one of the girls was her close friend. In two years, her mom would be diganosed with cancer.

She graduated from Denver, where her father worked. Five years later, her mom died from 15 years of breast cancer.

From 1989 through March 1991, Rice served on President George H.W. Bush’s National Security Council staff. She served as Director; Senior Director of Soviet and East European Affairs; and, Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs. In 1986, while an international affairs fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations, Rice also served as Special Assistant to the Director of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

She was a provost for 6 years. And it was a very big honor for her to become the first woman and African American Provost here is a link to an article from 1993 giving more detail: http://articles.latimes.com/1993-05-20/news/mn-37447_1_stanford-university

She was the 66th Secretary of State and served under President George W Bush. She served from 2005-2009. She was also the first African American Women to do so. ( The second African American)

After her tenure as secretary of state, Rice was approached in February 2009 to fill an open position as a Pac-10 Commissioner, but chose instead to return to Stanford University as a political science professor and the Thomas and Barbara Stephenson Senior Fellow on Public Policy at the Hoover Institution.

This book is a memoir of her years in Washington D.C. A preview can be found here: https://books.google.com/books/about/No_Higher_Honor.html?id=6mtTvdrZgDIC&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button#v=onepage&q&f=false

You can find it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8YxXcZeHA4