Kent Klein, Voice of America News
- Michelle Obama, 44, her husband Barack and their daughters Malia and Sasha, are about to move into the most prestigious home in America: The White House. But it is not the first time Mrs. Obama has been a pioneer.
When she was a child in Chicago, her family moved into what had been an all-white neighborhood.
Liza Mundy, who has written a biography of the incoming first lady, says they were not welcome.
“So one of her first experiences as a young girl would have been experiencing greater economic opportunity for her own family, a nicer neighborhood, nicer home, but also witnessing the fact that white families were moving away from hers, even as they were moving up in the world,” Mundy said.
