And the Reverend Jesse Jackson commented in a statement about what her small act of bravery meant for African-American people.

VOA: special.2009.03.08

Last year,the top news story was the election of Barack Obama as the first African-American president of the United States.

VOA: special.2010.01.02

These included African-American gardeners, Native American laborers, maids from Ireland and men from England who worked with the horses.

VOA: special.2010.07.18

Eartha was sent to New York City to live with an aunt in the African- American neighborhood of Harlem.

VOA: special.2009.06.07

Susie Kay was a teacher at a mostly African-American high school in Washington when she launched Hoop Dreams in 1996.

VOA: special.2009.01.28

Barack Obama has spoken repeatedly of Lincoln's influence in making it possible for the country to have its first African-American president.

VOA: special.2009.02.09

Barbara Jordan became the first African-American woman to be elected to the United States Congress to represent Texas.

VOA: special.2010.05.09

And,he was proud of being the first African-American to break the color barrier in a major opera house.

VOA: special.2010.03.07

In nineteen forty, Lena Horne became the first African-American to travel and perform with an all-white jazz band.

VOA: special.2010.05.23

In the nineteen forties, Lena Horne was the first African-American in Hollywood to sign a long-term contract with a major movie studio.

VOA: special.2010.05.23

It was the first time an African-American man had won one of the four major competitions in tennis.

VOA: special.2010.02.07

She became the first African-American woman to earn a degree in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

VOA: special.2009.05.13

This modern festival of African-American culture includes lighting candles each night from December twenty-sixth through New Year's Day.

VOA: special.2009.12.21

There are also two movies about African-American teenagers and the people who help them improve their lives.

VOA: special.2010.03.01

Mister Obama has dealt with many issues since becoming the nation's first African-American president on January twentieth.

VOA: special.2009.05.02

The new partnerships are among seventy-three such active relationships in fifteen African countries and twenty-seven American states.

VOA: special.2009.02.10

Standing in front of the Capitol, Barack Obama became the first African-American president of the United States.

VOA: special.2009.01.24

Henrietta Lacks was an African-American woman who was a cancer patient at Johns Hopkins University hospital.

VOA: special.2010.07.21

African-American singers recording for the company were extremely popular in the nineteen sixties and nineteen seventies.

VOA: special.2010.03.21

President Bush offered best wishes to Barack Obama, who will be the nation's first African-American president.

VOA: special.2009.01.17

But the school would not let her attend classes with other students because she was African-American.

VOA: special.2009.11.30

The United States Public Health Service and Tuskegee Institute in Alabama studied the effects of the disease syphilis on a group of poor African-American men.

VOA: special.2010.07.21