In 1969, at a hospital in South Carolina, all of its black nurses went on strike in hopes of receiving equal pay and treatment as the white nurses. Many people (who now, you may know from street names here in Atlanta), including Andrew Young, Coretta Scott King, and Ralph Abernathy, went to SC to assist in the movement. Andrew Young met with the only person in the hospital that would talk with him, and resolved an end to the strike. And that person was the new vice president at the medical college, appointed just days before the strike took place, and who was father to a boy who would become the greatest American alive, Stephen Colbert. And now you know… the rest of the story (sorry, I couldn’t help it).

I just found this to be really interesting, and upon looking up facts about Colbert, I found out another strangely interesting detail. Stephen Colbert’s father and two of his brothers died in a plane crash… on September 11th, 1974… very strange…

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