“What connection did Obama have to Chicago other than his boyhood mentor Frank Marshall Davis?”
THIS is the question I’ve been asking. If there is one person in Obama’s background that should be explored, it’s Frank Marshall Davis, his mentor and the ONLY tie I’ve found why Barak may have shown up in Chicago where he got connected to Ayers.
He may have met Ayers in New York City in the early eighties.
"Obama graduated from Columbia University in 1983, and moved to Chicago in 1985 to work for a church-based group seeking to improve living conditions in poor neighborhoods plagued with crime and high unemployment. In 1991, Obama graduated from Harvard Law School where he was the first African American president of the Harvard Law Review."
http://obama.senate.gov/about/
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Bill Ayers' education:
1987 - Ed.D, Columbia University, Curriculum & Instruction
1987 - M.Ed, Teachers College, Columbia University, Early Childhood Education
1984 - M.Ed, Bank Street College, Early Childhood Education
1968 - B.A., University of Michigan, American Studies
http://education.uic.edu/directory/faculty_info.cfm?netid=bayers
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Bank Street College
Where We Are and How to Get Here:
Bank Street College is located on the Upper West Side of Manhattan at 610 West 112th Street, between Broadway and Riverside Drive.
Bank Street College is located in a bustling family and university neighborhood four blocks from Columbia University
http://www.bankstreet.edu/aboutbsc/visiting.html
Davis left Chicago before Obama was born. He died in 1987, when Obama was 16.