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...ARMS. But black soldiers were being discriminated against. They received about half the pay whites did and were not being promoted for distinguished service. Worse still, black prisoners were being murdered or enslaved by Confederates. As a result of these injustices, Douglass quit recruiting and went to Washington to plead his case to the President...
...went to see the loan officer at the local branch of one of South Africa's biggest banks, he didn't want to know her. She didn't have enough for a deposit, he said. She was a bad risk. Leo took time off work and went to plead her case every day for three weeks. Finally, in a last-ditch attempt before her home was reauctioned, she visited the office of the bank's ceo, sat herself down in his reception area and waited. After about six hours, the puzzled ceo invited her into his office. He listened...
...area, stands to lose his home to a planned dam. Yu arranged elocution lessons for Ge and taught him to protect himself by invoking political slogans introduced by China's leader, Hu Jintao. He brought Ge to Beijing to address a United Nations Development Program conference on dams and plead for villagers' right to review settlement plans. Most of all, Yu armed Ge with information to take back to his fellow villagers. "We've survived wars and we've survived earthquakes," Ge tells them. "I don't know if we'll survive dams...
...ordered England to pose for the pictures, which he claimed were for legitimate training purposes. That prompted the judge to stop the trial and tell England, "If you honestly believe you were doing what Graner told you to do and that it was O.K., you can't plead guilty...
Good question. Witnesses were supposed to paint a sympathetic picture of England. Graner, who is the father of her infant son, was eager to do so, passing reporters a note before he testified that said, "Knowing what happened in Iraq, it was very upsetting to see Lynn plead guilty to her charges...