Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ralph David Abernathy has vowed time after time that unless something is done to help the poor, they will bring down "plague after plague" upon "the Pharaohs of this nation." Last week, as his Poor People's Campaign continued to flood into Washington, it began to look as if somebody, somewhere, had mistaken the poor for the Pharaohs and their "Resurrection City" for old Egypt land...
Though Abernathy recently claimed his father was born a slave and earned but a slave's wages, his family was better off than that. They owned 500 acres in Linden, Ala., and prospered even during the Depression. Ralph-tenth of twelve children-was expected to help work the farm, but, says his wife Juanita, "He was just too awkward at farm work and never learned...
...gained him quick recognition, and in 1951 he was named pastor of the First Baptist Church of Montgomery, where he also joined the N.A.A.C.P. He approached civil rights with the same intensity as he did the Bible. So it was not surprising that he got the first call for help after Mrs. Rosa Parks, a Negro seamstress, refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery bus in 1955, thereby launching the most protracted-and successful-nonviolent protest in American history...
...starting salary for the District's 3,100-man police force (23% black) from $6,700 to $8,000 as of July 1. Though Washington already has more police per 1,000 people than any other city in the U.S., local officials hope that the pay raise will help build an even bigger force...
...question that pols put to their pollsters is not "Who's going to win?" but "What's bugging the voters?" Polls help candidates to identify their own negatives, and then change those characteristics that voters find unattractive. Taking advice from their pollsters, California Democratic Chief Jesse Unruh peeled off 90 lbs. to reshape his corpulent boss image, and Pennsylvania Democrat Milton Shapp discarded his maroon socks (but lost the 1966 gubernatorial race anyway). Candidates also use private polls to find out where the large and decisive mass of swing voters is located, and then concentrate their campaigning...