Condoleezza Rice is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on November 14, 1954 in Birmingham, Alabama, United States. The 66th US Secretary of State, who was the only female African-American to hold the post and was also the second African American and second woman. In her capacity as Secretary of States, she advocated for the expansion of democratic governance and was a key figure in the policies of the Bush Administration throughout the middle eastern region.
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I remember the bombing of that Sunday School at 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham in 1963. I did not see it happen, but I heard it happen, and I felt it happen, just a few blocks away at my father’s church. It is a sound that I will never forget, that will forever reverberate in my ears. That bomb took the lives of four young girls, including my friend and playmate, Denise McNair. The crime was calculated to suck the hope out of young lives, bury their aspirations. But those fears were not propelled forward, those terrorists failed.
Rice was eight when her schoolmate Denise McNair, aged 11, was murdered in the bombing of the primarily black Sixteenth Street Baptist Church by white supremacists on September 15, 1963. Rice has commented upon that moment in her life:
She briefly was engaged to footballer Rick Upchurch in the 1970s.
