Word: plight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...responsible civil rights movement, which has accomplished much for the Negro in the 1960s, today faces a crisis of survival. Powerless to quell insensate violence in the slums, its leaders are equally helpless in the face of rising white impatience with riots and those who incite them. The plight of moderate Negro leadership was demonstrated anew last week. Items...
...desperate bid to wrest command from extremists, King declared nonviolent war to remedy the slum dweller's plight in Northern cities, promising a wave of civil disobedience, school boycotts, marches, sitdowns and sit-ins instead of fire bombs and snipers. "Mass disobedience can use rage as a constructive and creative force," declared King. But there were doubts about whether his S.C.L.C. could actually organize such nonviolent rebellion-or keep it nonviolent...
...slums are too large and too numerous, the plight of the Negro too desperate, for the U.S. to pin its hopes for racial calm on police action or hasty economic palliatives. What is needed in addition is proof positive to the Negro that he can find justice and hope in America, and that he can find it soon...
Despite the sudden flurry of interest in the Negro's plight, the spate of committees ordered to probe the ghettos' blight, and the rash of ratiocination in the press, Young warns that "time is running out." Not only for the Negro moderates, who are having more and more trouble persuading the slum dwellers not to turn to violence, but for the rest of society...
...Relenting. At the extradition hearings two weeks ago, Tshombe described himself bitterly as "a victim of my popularity," vaguely blamed the CIA for having a hand in his plight, and vowed: "I will go back to the Congo because I am a man." He may not have much choice. If Boumediene acts on the Algerian supreme court's recommendation that Tshombe be extradited, Tshombe will probably be returned to the Congo secretly and put to death quickly. Mobutu shows no signs of relenting, said last week that "the furor created over the Tshombe affair constitutes meddling in our internal...