Many of the best baseball players in the United States played in the Negro Leagues before white professional teams began accepting black players.

VOA: special.2009.04.05

The Negro who flees the South is really a refugee.

的确，逃到南方的黑人就是一个难民。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Alexander H. Stephens, a Georgian, a slaveholder, said the cornerstone of the Confederacy, the cornerstone of their political movement, was what he called "American Negro slavery."

亚历山大· H·斯蒂芬斯,一个来自乔治亚州的奴隶主,用他的演讲为邦联打下了基石,这块邦联政治运动的基石,被他称为,"美国的黑人奴隶制度"

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Some observers said that Jackie Robinson was not the best player in the Negro Leagues.

VOA: special.2009.04.05

"I agree with Judge Douglas," Lincoln said, "that the Negro is not my equal in many ways certainly not in color, perhaps not mentally or morally.

VOA: special.2009.06.11

Then at night, the negro would be taken to another hiding place farther north.

VOA: special.2009.04.16

It was one of the most famous baseball teams in the Negro League.

VOA: special.2009.04.05

But,he was unhappy in the Negro League because of the difficult life there.

VOA: special.2009.04.05

And war for the Negro was openly begun with stronger effort than before.

VOA: special.2009.10.22

So,he decided to play with the Negro Baseball League.

VOA: special.2009.04.05

"I do not accept the Negro as my equal,"

VOA: special.2009.06.11

He explained his position many times in speeches,debates and letters, including this one written in eighteen fifty-eight: I have made it equally plain that I think the negro is included in the word "men" used in the Declaration of Independence.

VOA: special.2009.02.09

Anti-war activists told them that the war was not being fought to save the Union, but to free Negro slaves.

VOA: special.2009.10.29

Then a free Negro man who worked at the railroad station, Hayward Shepherd, walked down to the bridge.

VOA: special.2009.06.25

People who owned negro slaves wanted to take all their property -- including the slaves -- with them when they moved west.

VOA: special.2009.04.30

At a meeting of the National Negro Business League, Madam Walker explained that she was a woman who came from the cotton fields of the South.

VOA: special.2010.03.28

One resolution would make slaves of all Negro soldiers captured from the Union army.

VOA: special.2009.10.08

She was the longtime chairwoman of the National Council of Negro Women.

VOA: special.2010.04.24

The majority decided that a negro was not a citizen.

VOA: special.2009.05.14

The Thirteenth Amendment freed all Negro slaves.

VOA: special.2010.02.04

DAVID FAULKNER: "For many years, there had been an active campaign against segregated baseball led by Negro newspaper editors and,strangely enough,by the Communist party, which from the middle nineteen thirties on, had actively campaigned against segregated baseball.

VOA: special.2009.04.05

" ...when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual: Free at last! Free at last!

VOA: special.2010.04.16