Ranch dressing has been the best-selling salad dressing in the United States since 1992, when it overtook Italian dressing. It is also popular as a dip and flavoring for chips and other foods.
Early Life. Wilma Glodean Rudolph was born premature and sickly on June 23, 1940, in St. Bethlehem, Tennessee, the 20th of 22 children to parents Ed and Blanche Rudolph, and went on to become an African-American pioneer of track and field. But the road to victory was not an easy one for Wilma Rudolph.
Mary Fair Burks (July 31, 1914 â July 21, 1991) was an American educator, scholar, and civil rights activist from Montgomery, Alabama. Burks was born in Montgomery, Alabama on July 31, 1914, the son of Gustavus Gus Samuel and Ollie (nÃ©e Williams) Fair. She attended Alabama State University and earned a Bachelor of Science degree in 1933, and Michigan State University where she earned a Master of Arts degree in 1934.