Word: poore
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Carril's words proved prophetic here at Jadwin Gymnasium last night as Harvard took advantage of poor Princeton shooting to defeat the Tigers, 63-57, in front of 3500 spectators...
...youth. Beards shaved and locks shorn, they rushed by the thousands to become "Clean for Gene" workers in his crusade. The New York Senator's decision to enter the race split the peace movement. It also brought back to American politics an almost mystical icon of concern for the poor, the disenfranchised and the disaffected. "I think we can end the divisions within the United States, the violence," Kennedy declared from the rostrum at Los Angeles' Ambassador Hotel, after winning the June 4 California primary. Moments later, he was dead...
Martin Luther King Jr.'s staff called the labor troubles in Memphis a distraction and advised against his going there. They argued that King had a mass of details to work out for the Poor People's Campaign, a nationwide series of marches and speeches that would end with a giant rally in Washington. But the civil rights leader insisted on marching in Memphis, where black sanitation workers employed by the city were demonstrating to form a union. These men, he said, were abused and overworked, yet unwilling to remain silent -- exactly the qualities he was looking for. Said King...
...visit those who were in prison . . . that I tried to love and serve humanity." On April 8 in Memphis, 42,000 people walked silently in the march Martin Luther King Jr. had planned. By the end of the month, Ralph Abernathy, his friend and successor, kicked off the Poor People's Campaign. In May, the campaign arrived in Washington. There, two months after King's death, a makeshift village arose. It was called Resurrection City U.S.A...
...Stanley Weiss of the department of preventive medicine at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey in Newark: "If you talk to people in middle-class America, AIDS seems a significant threat because a lot of their other problems are under control. But if you approach the poor in the inner cities, they don't see the disease as such a threat. They have so many problems besides AIDS that it is hard to focus on this one issue." People do not pay much attention to guidelines about safe sex, Weiss points out, if they have no home...