Civil and political rights are critical but not often the real problem for the destitute sick. My patients in Haiti can now vote but they can't get medical care or clean water.
If you look just at the decades after 1934 you know it's hard to point to...
Sometime they don't let you know that they know that they don't know...
Good acting is all in the writing. If it isn't on the page then it really won't make any difference. You cannot act on force of personality alone.