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Oprah Winfrey was born in Kosciusko, MS. Her mother, Vernita Lee, and father Vernon Winfrey, were not married. Her mother told her they were only a fling.
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Oprah's mother, Vernita, leaves MS and moves to Milwaulkee, Wisconsin. Oprah is left in MS with her grandmother.
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Oprah begins school. Her grandmother taught her how to read, so she was bumped up to the first grade from kindergarten.
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Oprah's mother gets settled in Milwaulkee, and wants Oprah to join her. She moves from her grandmother's farm in MS and moves in with her mother.
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Oprah has a new baby sister named Patricia. Patricia was light skin and was favored more.
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Oprah moves in with her father, Vernon, in Nashville TN. Her father was strict and made her read all the time unlike her mother.
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at age 14 oprah becomes pregnant. Stress made her go into premature labor and her baby died two weeks earlier
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Oprah recieves a year scholarship to attend Tennessee State.
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Oprah starts a new job as a news anchor on WtFV-TV in Nashville.
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Fall of 1984 Oprah moves to Chicago for a job oppertunity. She started hosting a morning talk show called A.M. Chicago.
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The A.M. Chicago show was now called The Oprah Winfry Show. this was the birth of her show.
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Quincy Jones casted Oprah in his movie production in the Color Purple. She stared as Sophia.
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Oprah signs a big deal with King World to broadcast The Oprah Winfrey Show. She starts her own production company, Harpo.
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Oprah was nominated for her first Academy Award, for her role as Sophia in the Color Purple. She did not win it though.
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Oprah recieves her first Emmy Award for Outstanding Talk Show Host.
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Oprah stars in the movie Beloved.
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Oprah finds O Magazine
