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Dr. Gordon A. Rodgers Jr., in his own words
A family-built archive of the Anniston dentist, NAACP leader and first Black member of the city council, with a timeline, oral histories and local places.
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- Eight life chapters are footnoted to sources, alongside recordings and transcripts from two interviews conducted in 1995 and 2002.
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The biography follows Rodgers from his family’s Alabama roots through Meharry dental school, World War II service and civic work in Anniston. Oral-history excerpts are tied to tape numbers and timestamps, with transcript text alongside them; the page also points readers to the original Alabama Oral History and credits its sources. A “Share a Memory” link invites additions to the family archive.
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