Condoleezza Rice was born in 1954 in Birmingham, Alabama, the only child of high school teacher Angelena and pastor John. Rice was reared in the Titusville district of Birmingham and then on the Stillman College campus in Tuscaloosa, where her father was employed.
After the family relocated to Denver, Colorado, Rice enrolled in St. Mary’s Academy, a Catholic school for only female students, in 1967. She entered the University of Denver after receiving her diploma at the age of 16, where she later earned a BA in political science at the age of 19. She graduated from the University of Notre Dame with an MA in the same subject in 1975.
Rice began working as an intern at the State Department in 1977, under the Carter administration. She spent 1979 studying Russian at Moscow State University and working as an intern in California for the RAND Corporation. Later, in 1981, she graduated from the University of Denver with a Ph.D. in political science.
She started her long-term relationship with Stanford during that period as a fellow at the university’s Arms Control and Disarmament Program.
Condoleezza Rice Parents: John Wesley Rice, Angelena Rice
John Wesley Rice and Angelena Rice are the biological parents of Condoleezza Rice.
John Wesley Rice
John Wesley Rice is Condoleezza Rice’s father. Her father, John Wesley Rice Jr., was a football coach and guidance counselor at a black public school in Birmingham.
He was also consecrated as a Presbyterian minister at the Westminster Presbyterian Church in Birmingham, which his father had built.
Angelena Rice
On July 21, 1924, in Alabama, United States, Condoleezza’s mother Angelena Rice was born. In August 1985, at the age of 61, Angelena passed away from breast cancer. When Condoleezza Rice’s mother passed away, she was 30 years old.
Little is known about Angelena Rice since she lived a very secluded life. When new information is available on her, this section will be updated.
Source: Kingaziz.com