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Racism Du Jour at Shoney's
Watkins, Steve | October 18, 1993 issue

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Actress Billie Elliott wants to get a spot on Oprah. The way she looks at it, that's how she'll reach the kind of people who need to hear her story most: people like her who lost their jobs not because they didn't do them right but because of somebody else's bigotry. Elliott's story is about battling corporate racism in the U.S. and she wants a chance to tell it to the 15 million others who watch Oprah too. Billie wants to get on Oprah and tell people how she and her husband fought back against Captain D's parent company, Shoney's Inc., one of the largest family restaurant chains in the country, with its 1,800 stores in thirty-six states and its billion-and-a-half-dollar-a-year business.

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SHONEY'S Inc.; ELLIOTT, Billie; RACISM; RACE discrimination; DISCRIMINATION; RACE relations
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