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This country prides itself on supporting the rights of all to express their opinions. A few lobbies at all levels of political correctness--the National Rifle Association, various environmentalists, tobacco producers, Emily's List, the NAACP--have the assets to jackhammer their ideas into the minds of congressional representatives every day. Yet many groups who most need their voices to be heard now are the least equipped to speak...
Examine the following cases: the poor of Appalachia, the nation's small farmers and legal immigrants. Each group is on the verge of economic collapse, and as a result needs to be attended to now, not next year. Though the causes of Emily's List and the NAACP are above reproach, they have booming voices. More importantly, they are currently secure, both politically and economically...
...first job was with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in Jackson, Miss., where she directed the Legal Defense and Education Fund...
...left the NAACP to found the Washington Research Project. Five years later, that project became the Children's Defense Fund...
Following the film clips, John F. Kennedy Jr. Moderated a discussion whose panel members included Eli Segal, assistant to President Clinton and director of the office of National Service: Dorothy Stoneman '63, Director of the National Youth Build Coalition, Elaine Jones of the NAACP Legal Defense and Litigation Fund, and Professor of Psychiatry and Medical Humanities Robert Coles...