Word: plight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...REPORTS: "HUNGER IN AMERICA" (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Reporter David Culhane visits Virginia tenant farmers, Alabama sharecroppers, Arizona Indians and Texas Mexican-Americans to dramatize the plight of some 4,000,000 Americans who suffer from malnutrition...
...smoke in urban areas are but echoes of battles lost in homes, schools and churches where moment by moment the American character is forged. It should be obvious that, in country or city, the Negro throughout this nation will continue to fight desperately for the honest answer to his plight-for equality status. Why? Simply because being an American has come to signify to him what it does for the rest of us-the dignity of the individual. It is those who would deprive him of this heritage who are totally irresponsible and utterly unAmerican...
...symbol and a symptom of the nation's racial malaise. The proximate cause of his death was, ironically, a minor labor dispute in a Southern backwater: the two-month-old strike of 1,300 predominantly Negro garbage collectors in the decaying Mississippi river town of Memphis. The plight of the sanitation workers, caused by the refusal of Memphis' intransigent white Mayor Henry Loeb to meet their modest wage and compensation demands, first attracted and finally eradicated Dr. King, the conqueror of Montgomery, Birmingham and Selma...
Students who regard government and police efforts at riot control as just another example of racial exploitation are, said Coles, fitting the riots into a pre-conceived ideological scheme, without considering the actual plight of Negroes "whose houses are being gutted, whose children are being killed...
...would probably agree on goals, the two men have markedly different ideas on how to achieve them. Gardner was convinced that the nation could not wait for the next upward cycle and resigned in disenchantment when he felt the President did not share his sense of urgency about the plight of the cities. Cohen is no less unhappy with the current negative mood in Congress and the nation, but he is willing to wait, moving ahead meanwhile in small steps and shuffles...