After Cory was born, both of his parents remained with IBM Cary got promoted to the New York office and Carolyn got a job in White Plains, N.Y. Cary later said was a “cheap” and affordable neighborhood at that time. They settled down in Harrington Park, New Jersey, which has been described as a wealthy and mostly white suburb near Newark.
In 1969, when Cory was a baby, the couple moved to New Jersey in 1969 and started a family. They were among the first African American executives in the company.
Cary & Carolyn Booker Faced Racial Discrimination & Even Violence When Trying to Buy a Home in New JerseyĬary and Carolyn met in Washington, DC, where they were both working for IBM. Here’s what you need to know about his parents, Cary and Carolyn Booker.ġ. Cory was born in 1969 has one sibling, an older brother named Cary. “I believe that we can build a country where no one is forgotten, no one is left behind where parents can put food on the table where there are good paying jobs with good benefits in every neighborhood where our criminal justice system keeps us safe, instead of shuffling more children into cages and coffins where we see the faces of our leaders on television and feel pride, not shame.”īooker’s announcement also talked about his own childhood, and the great struggles that his parents faced as African Americans trying to create a better life for their family. “We are better when we help each other,” Booker says in the message. Booker released a video announcing his presidential run, offering a message of national unity. On Feburary 1, New Jersey senator Corey Booker became the latest Democrat to enter the race for the White House.
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