When Oprah was 6 she went to live with her mother Vernita

Lee in Milwaukee Wisconsin when Oprah was 8 she went to live with her father Vernon and his wife Zelma, Oprah thrived and did well at school under their care. She also perfumed in Sunday school programs and at recitals, impressing adults with her verbal abilities. Oprah went to spend the summer with her mother

Oprah got a job reading news reports after school and on weekends for WVOL radio station. The WVOL radio station chose Oprah to represent then at the Miss Fire Prevention Beauty Contest. Oprah has always believed in speaking the truth and that is how she won the pageant. Oprah entered three other beauty pageants, she won two of these. Once the beauty pageants were oven Oprah began her college life at Tennessee State University in 1973 Oprah got her first job on TV as a weekend reporter /newsreader at WTVF-TV. In 1976 she received a job offer from ABC-TV station WJZ in Baltimore Maryland. Oprah approached her new job with gusto. Oprahs next job was reading cut-ins on ABC’s Good Morning America Show. Im 1977 a new manager arrived at the station and wanted to start a talk show to rival the Phil Donahue Show. The show was called “People are Talking” he chose Oprah to co-anchor with Richard Sher. Oprah felt they had put her on theh show just to get rid of her, but now feels it was her

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