Condoleezza Rice Recalls Growing Up During Segregation on 'Today' (VIDEO)

Condoleezza Rice's memoir, 'Extraordinary, Ordinary People' tells the story of her upbringing during the civil rights movement in Birmingham, Alabama. On 'Today' (weekdays, 7AM ET on NBC), Rice said she wrote the memoir as a way to explain how her parents and a childhood in the racially segregated south shaped her into the person she is today.

"So many times, people have said, 'How did you become who you are?'" said Rice. "I said, 'You had to know [my parents] in order to answer that question.' So, I wanted people to know John and Angelina Rice."

"This was a family that nurtured and believed in education and a community that did the same under, really, incredible circumstances of segregation," she continued.