Joycelyn Elders, the pediatrician nominated to be Surgeon General, was the first in her sharecropper family of eight children to go to college, working her way through Philander Smith, a black institution in Arkansas, as a cleaning woman. When she was home one weekend, her younger brother Chester, now a Methodist minister in Pine Bluff, realized that she had begun to change when she took her siblings to the drive-in to see a movie. "She went to a section not marked off for coloreds," says her brother. "The attendant told her to move, and they got in a heated argument. We...
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