Word: plight
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Addressing himself thus, Johnson was never more powerful. Other Presidents have lamented the plight of the Negro but have skirted the hard words necessary to describe the depth of the Negro's deprivation. But Johnson believes with Teddy Roosevelt that the Presidency is a "bully pulpit," and with Truman, who once said, "It is only the President who is responsible to all the people." And so, on the night before and straight up to the time he arrived at the Capitol, he dwelt deeply on his subject, dictating, philosophizing, penciling, revising, emphasizing. Now he was ready...
There in the shadow of the ag and the columns by which Davis was sworn in an first president the Confederacy, the crowd heard almost the whole roster of civil rights describe the plight of the Negro and demand the demise of Jim Crow...
...original patron of the civil rights movement, Thomas speaks with a special sophistication and sensitivity about the plight of the American Negro. He pleads that "whites should not be Olympian" in assigning value to various civil rights organizations, and he has divided his contributions among almost all major existing groups. He is confident about the nation's progress in race relations, which has inclined him to favor less extreme actions; he was opposed, for example, to the recent situation in the White House. Thomas states that "there is no commandment 'thou shalt demonstrate,'" and he counsels against universal adoption...
Since the desire to dramatize the Negro plight goes hand in hand with the more substantive drive to achieve equal rights, Selma seemed a natural target to Martin Luther King. The city's civil rights record was awful. There was Clark, the perfect public villain. There, too, was Mayor Joe T. Smitherman, 35, an erstwhile appliance dealer, an all-out segregationist, and a close friend of Alabama's racist Democratic Governor George Wallace...
...nation, the Project publicized the plight of the South. Americans became aware that the Southern Negro wanted to vote and was not being allowed to do so. The murder of three civil-rights workers shocked the country, and people began to understand the nature of the oppression that was being practiced within their national borders...