Oprah Winfrey Biography: Dumped her dresses made from potato sacks
On the 29th of January 1954, Oprah Winfrey was born in the rural town of Kosciusko, Mississippi. Legally her unwed parents, Vernita Lee and Vernon Winfrey named her Orpah. And the name is traceable to the Bible. But, almost from birth, people called her “Oprah,” due to the confusion arising from spelling and pronouncing Orpah,…