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the influence of the Assembly has revitalized the school system once last in the state in test scores. C. P. Penn, school superintendent, now sends 95% of his graduates on to further their education.

30 years ago Donald Anderson's vision organized in Surry County, Va. 'A minor rebellion,' he called it, where blacks outnumber whites but never held elective office. Assembly founding father and former chauffeur, Walter Hardy left, says, 'We…

'You go through rural areas, and you have people who don't even know elections are going on,' says Robert Jamison, vowing that the assembly will change all that. Hanging a campaign poster in a Cotton field, Henry Gipson hopes to become the first…

Assembly member Robert Jamison makes his Monday morning rounds to see if he can help anyone locked up over the weekend at the Marks city jail. He's vowing to do something, to have the people energized by the assembly.

Martin Luther King once visited Cotton St. in Marks, Mississippi, and someone spotted tears streaking his cheeks in front of a shack without running water. 'Still,' Assembly member Robert Jamison says, 'People are living like this. '

in Lamont, Jeanette Priest watches over her husband Leeandrew, who recently had his foot amputated after getting gangrene The local assembly has vowed to do something about the sewage running through their backyard.

Last year the 'Assembly' decided to take on Mississippi, which has long befuddled anti-poverty workers. Rico Harvey bathes in an old wash tub, with stove heated water inside the three room house he shares with eight family members in Glendora.

he's been down this road before. He was there in the '60s, when there was a foot stomping and rage, but the political climate change, the rage quieted. A lot of the marchers went home. 'I want to organize the whole south,' Donald Anderson says.

the Pope's visit elevated the status of Cuba's beleaguered Roman Catholic Church and open windows of religious tolerance that will not easily be closed.

a portrait of Cuban Revolutionary War hero ' Che ' Guevara stares across the plaza of the Revolution in Havana as nuns cheer Pope John Paul's arrival for his final Mass in Cuba