Long before Condoleezza Rice served as America’s first female National Security Advisor and the first African-American female Secretary of State, she was a child growing up in the racially charged city of Birmingham, Ala., in the 1960s. Here, Rice witnessed a disturbing mix of segregation, tension and violence, telling “Oprah’s Master Class” how the experience and memories of her time in Birmingham have had a profound impact on who she is today.
“It was a scary place in 1962 and 1963,” she recalls in the above video. “Birmingham was the most segregated big city in America.
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Related: Diahann Carroll shares her first painful experience with segregation upon leaving her hometown of New York.
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