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"A Financial Aid Application From Barack H. Obama Sr.
Barack Obama Sr. wrote to the African-American Institute in 1959 seeking scholarship money to help cover his studies in the United States. The document is one of many discovered by an archivist at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem:

https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/2866457/A-Financial-Aid-Application-From-Obama-s-Father.pdf

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"Appeal for Transportation Money by Barack Obama Sr.
Barack Obama Sr. had been accepted to Harvard University as a graduate student, but he didn’t have enough money to buy a plane ticket to Cambridge, Mass. In June 1962, he pleaded for emergency assistance from the African-American Institute. The letter is one of many documents discovered by an archivist at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem:

https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/2866565/A-Letter-by-Barack-Obama-Sr.pdf