"Appeal for Funds for Living Expenses by Barack Obama Sr. In 1962, Barack Obama Sr. began his graduate studies at Harvard University and requested financial assistance to help him cope with the high cost of living in Cambridge, Mass. The letter is one of nearly two dozen that chronicle his life in the United States:
"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: