Oprah Winfrey

By Layan Rajab

  • Her Birth

    Her Birth
    Born in Kosciusko, Mississipi
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    Oprah Winfrey

  • Moved to Nashville,Tennessee

    Moved to Nashville,Tennessee

  • Ran away from home suffering from abuse

  • She became pregnant and her pre-mature son died shortly after birth

  • She won a miss black Tennessee beauty pagent

  • She was hired part news anchoring at a radio station

  • She moved to Baltimore's WJZ-TV to co-anchor 6 o'clock news

  • Join Richard Sher as a co-host WJZ's local talk show on the show People Are Talking

  • She wrote a suicidal note to her best friend Gayle King becaue of depression

  • Moved to Chicago to host WLS-TV's morning talk show, A.M Chicago

  • Her first episode aired on A.M Chicago

  • The Oprah Winfrey Show was born

  • Annouced sexual abuse by her family and family friend

  • Death of Winfrey's half-brother

  • Oprah introduced her book club on her show

  • When WInfrey played the theraipist on an episode of the Sitcom Ellen

  • Winfrey began an ongoing conversation with Gary Zukav

  • Winfrey created the Oprah's Angel Network, a charity the supported charitable projects provided grants to nonprofit organizations around the world

  • She was awarded the Spingarn Medal from the NAACP

  • Christianity Today published an article, they concluded that Winfrey had emerged as an influential spiritual leader

  • Goerge W. Bush invited Winfrey to join the US delegation planning to go to Afghanistan to celebrate the return of Afghan Girls to school

  • She started he own magazine, the O magazine

  • Winfrey and her team filmed an episode of her show, Oprah's Chrismas Kindness, in which Winfrey travellled to South Africa to bring attention to the plight of young children affected by poverty and AIDS

  • Winfrey became the first black person to rank among 50 most generous Americans

  • She held a fund raiser for Obama

  • Winfrey began to endorse the self-program The Secret

  • Winfrey joined Obama for a series of rallies in the early primary states of Iowa, New Hamspshire, and South Crolina

  • OWN, Oprah Winfrey Network plans were annouced

  • Winfrey endorsed author ans spiritual teacher Eckhart Tolle and his book

  • Winfrey was named the Person of the Year by animal-rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals for using her fame and listening audience to help the less fortunate

  • Winfrey filmed a series of interviews in Denmark higlighting its citizens as thr happiest people in the world

  • The charity stopped accepting donations and was later dissolved

  • The OWN was launched

  • The last episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show was aired

  • Winfrey had also given over 400 scholarships to Morehouse Collage in Atlanta,Georgia

  • Winfrey donated $12 million to the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History Culture

    Winfrey donated $12 million to the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History Culture

  • Winfrey spoke for more than 20 minutes at a fundraiser in Arlington, Virginia

    Winfrey spoke for more than 20 minutes at a fundraiser in Arlington, Virginia