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When Dr. Jackson made a house call to visit a toddler with whooping cough in segregated Anniston, Ala. the prognosis was not good...
Initially, Satcher says he wanted to return to his hometown and open a family practice there, but during college, he says he realized that there were "Anniston, Alabamas" all over the country...
...park to be more like a fan frenzy. Already idolized by millions of female Clueless fans, Rudd is soon to be a universally household name. With his role as Alicia Silverstone's brotherly beau in Clueless, his romantic lead in Ballyhoo, and now his star turn opposite Jennifer Anniston in The Object of My Affection, Rudd proves that, even in Hollywood, sometimes nice guys finish first...
...Sunday, May 14, 1961, a Greyhound bus rolled into Anniston, Ala. A crowd of more than 150 local citizens waited at the bus station. They were surprisingly well dressed. Many of the men wore jackets and ties. Many of them carried iron pipes and baseball bats. A witness said it looked like either a lynching or a picnic...
...decision, six years after the Montgomery bus boycott, the Congress of Racial Equality had dispatched a few buses loaded with Freedom Riders--young Negro civil rights workers and a few whites--to challenge segregation laws in various public facilities in the Deep South. The bus driver yelled to the Anniston crowd, "Well, boys, here they are. I brought you some niggers and nigger-lovers...