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Oprah Winfrey
Though there are conflicting reports as to how her name became "Oprah", Winfrey was originally named "
Orpah
" after the Biblical character in the
Book of Ruth
. Her family and friends' inability to pronounce "Orpah" caused them to put the "P" before the "R" in every place else other than the birth certificate.
[28]
Winfrey was born in
Kosciusko, Mississippi
to unmarried parents. She later explained that her conception was due to a single sexual encounter that her two teenage parents had; they broke up not long after.
Her mother, Vernita Lee, was a housemaid. Growing up, Winfrey believed that her biological father was Vernon Winfrey, a
coal
miner turned barber turned city councilman who was in the Armed Forces when she was born. Decades later, Mississippi farmer and World War II veteran Noah Robinson Sr. claimed to be her biological father.
After her birth, Winfrey's mother traveled north and Winfrey spent her first six years living in rural
poverty
with her grandmother, Hattie Mae Lee, who was so poor that Winfrey often wore dresses made of potato sacks, for which the local children made fun of her.
[31]
Her grandmother taught her to read before the age of three and took her to the local church, where she was nicknamed "The Preacher" for her ability to recite
Bible
verses. When Winfrey was a child, her grandmother would take a
switch
and would hit her with it when she didn't do chores or if she misbehaved in any way.
[32]
At age six, Winfrey moved to an inner-city neighborhood in
Milwaukee
, Wisconsin with her mother, who was less supportive and encouraging than her grandmother had been, due in large part to the long hours Vernita Lee worked as a maid.
[33]
Winfrey has stated that she was
molested
by her cousin, her uncle, and a family friend, starting when she was nine years old, something she first revealed to her viewers on a 1986 episode of her TV show, when
sexual abuse
was being discussed
.
At 13, after suffering years of abuse, Winfrey ran away from home. When she was 14, she became pregnant, but her son died shortly after birth. Also at that age, her frustrated mother sent her to live with Vernon in
Nashville, Tennessee
. Vernon was strict, but encouraging and made her education a priority. Winfrey became an honors student, was voted Most Popular Girl, joined her high school speech team at
East Nashville High School
, and placed second in the nation in dramatic interpretation. She won an oratory contest, which secured her a full scholarship to
Tennessee State University
, a
historically black institution
, where she studied communication. Her first job as a teenager was working at a local grocery store. At age 17, Winfrey won the Miss Black Tennessee beauty pageant. She also attracted the attention of the local black radio station,
WVOL
, which hired her to do the news part-time. She worked there during her senior year of high school, and again while in her first two years of college.
Winfrey's career choice in media did not surprise her grandmother, who once said that ever since Winfrey could talk, she was on stage. As a child she played games interviewing her corncob doll and the crows on the fence of her family's property. Winfrey later acknowledged her grandmother's influence, saying it was Hattie Mae who had encouraged her to speak in public and "gave me a positive sense of myself.
Working in local media, she was both the youngest
news anchor
and the first black female news anchor at
Nashville
's
WLAC-TV
. She moved to
Baltimore
's
WJZ-TV
in 1976 to co-anchor the six o'clock news. She was then recruited to join
Richard Sher
as co-host of WJZ's local
talk show
People Are Talking
, which premiered on August 14, 1978. She also hosted the local version of
Dialing for Dollars
there as well
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