"Work Experience of Barack H. Obama Sr. Barack Obama Sr. never finished high school and worked in a variety of jobs before he was admitted to the University of Hawaii in 1959. This document is among many from 1958 to 1964 at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem:
"A Letter About Barack H. Obama Sr.'s Record in College Barack Obama Sr. had hoped to graduate from Harvard University with a Ph.D. in economics, but he struggled there academically in his first year. He graduated with a master’s degree. The 1963 letter is one of many documents discovered by an archivist at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem: