Oprah Winfrey won Miss Black Tennessee beauty pageant at the age of 17 and was offered an on-air position at WVOL, a Nashville radio station that serves the African American. Oprah Winfrey, one of the nation’s most popular female entertainers, was born in Kosciusko, Mississippi, on January 29, 1954, to Vernita Lee and Vernon Winfrey. The racially.
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Born into poverty in Kosciusko, Oprah Winfrey managed to climb from her rural Mississippi roots to scale unimaginable heights throughout her remarkable career in.