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...state chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People since the civil rights movement was at its peak. Mississippi's Delta was one of its deadliest battlegrounds, a crescent of tormented land between Memphis and Vicksburg, hemmed by the Mississippi and Yazoo rivers, the poorest and blackest part of this country. A generation ago, some of the most oppressed blacks in the most harshly segregated state in the U.S. rose to claim their share of America's dream, and some whites did their violent worst to stop them. Television beamed the story to the world...
...life and hard times of Mississippi's poorest region...
...while the Ed School is among the poorest--and smallest--at Harvard, education professors inside and outside the University hail it as one of the nation's leaders, with a strong faculty that many say will make the new dean's job easier...
Increased political power is crucial for dealing with the many problems the Hispanic community faces, Segarra said. In New York, Hispanics are already the poorest community in the city, and it has been plagued with a high incidence of AIDS and drug use, she said...
...Colonel Amadou Toumani Toure, 43, commander of the parachute forces. The council has announced plans to form a 25-member interim administration, which will hold multiparty elections by 1992. But democracy still faces a stiff challenge in this drought-prone nation of 8 million, one of the world's poorest countries. While the coup brought the chance of greater freedom, it also continued the pattern of violent overthrows plaguing the continent...