This article is about 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. While she has the bedside manner of the white- coated physician, she has also been a verbal bomb thrower, trying to wake up Arkansas citizenry to the health crises in teenage pregnancy and AIDS by promoting sex education, birth control and freedom of choice on abortion. I chose this article because she been through alot and she's a strong smart black women.