Michelle Obama Shares Throwback Photo Reflecting on 'Scary' Time at 'White and Well-To-Do' Princeton
Michelle Obama shared a rare throwback photo on Instagram Tuesday and reflected on her “scary” experience as a first-generation, black college student at “white and well-to-do” Princeton University.
“This is me at Princeton in the early 1980s,” the former first lady captioned the vintage photo of herself. “I know that being a first-generation college student can be scary, because it was scary for me. I was black and from a working-class neighborhood in Chicago, while Princeton’s student body was generally white and well-to-do.”