Michelle Obama: What You Should Know About Her
EARLY LIFE AND ANCESTRY Michelle LaVaughn Robinson was born on January 17, 1964, in Chicago, Illinois, to Fraser Robinson III (1935–1991), a city water plant employee and Democratic precinct captain, and Marian Shields Robinson July 30, 1937), a secretary at Spiegel’s catalog store.Her mother was a full-time homemaker until Michelle entered high school. The Robinson and Shields families trace their roots to pre-Civil War African Americans in the American South.On her father’s side, she is descended from the Gullah people of South Carolina’s Low Country region.Her paternal great-great grandfather, Jim Robinson, was born into slavery in 1850 on Friendfield Plantation, … Continue reading Michelle Obama: What You Should Know About Her