But the only firefighters who qualified for immediate promotion to lieutenant or captain were whites and two Hispanics,no blacks.

VOA: special.2009.07.03

She worked with Martin Luther King Junior in the push for civil rights for blacks in the nineteen fifties and sixties.

VOA: special.2010.04.24

They helped cause angry whites to form the Ku Klux Klan and other groups that terrorized blacks for years to come.

VOA: special.2010.02.04

And it said each southern state must approve an amendment to the United States Constitution that gave citizenship to blacks.

VOA: special.2010.02.04

Zora was born at a time of racial tensions between blacks and whites in the southern United States.

VOA: special.2009.02.22

Yet the passage of these three amendments to the Constitution was still a historic step in making blacks full and equal citizens.

VOA: special.2010.02.04

In some parts of the country, blacks and whites lived in separate areas and went to separate schools.

VOA: special.2009.04.05

They said the new state governments of the South would not treat blacks as free and equal citizens.

VOA: special.2010.01.21

And it increased the military strength of the Union by making it possible for free blacks to serve in the northern army.

VOA: special.2009.02.09

She also opposed legislation that would have made it harder for blacks and Latin Americans to vote.

VOA: special.2010.05.09

The protesters demanded that the Woolworth Company permit blacks and whites to eat at its lunch counters.

VOA: special.2010.01.29

Many blacks also rejected Hurston's political ideas and her support for racial separation laws in the South.

VOA: special.2009.02.22

They were tried in federal courts. Juries were made up mainly of blacks and radical whites.

VOA: special.2010.02.18

During training, he and other blacks were kept apart from the whites they trained with.

VOA: special.2010.04.24

Two leading black Socialists, Chandler Owen and A.Philip Randolph, urged blacks to support Socialist candidates.

VOA: special.2011.01.20

Some people say "To Kill a Mockingbird" treats racism in a way that is simplistic, even offensive to blacks, and out of date in today's America.

VOA: special.2010.07.08

Blacks had been arrested and even killed for violating orders from bus drivers.

VOA: special.2009.03.08

Laws and customs in the South, however,still kept blacks and whites mostly separated.

VOA: special.2010.07.08

He supported racial equality and tried to bring blacks and whites together.

VOA: special.2010.02.07

Hurston received praise for her work by both blacks and whites.

VOA: special.2009.02.22

They threatened,beat, and killed blacks to keep them out of politics.

VOA: special.2010.02.18

And it did not want blacks in a united Alliance.

VOA: special.2010.06.10

Laws were enforced to keep blacks and whites separate.

VOA: special.2009.11.01

Radicals supported citizenship rights and voting rights for blacks.

VOA: special.2010.02.18

In time,blacks and whites would battle for control.

VOA: special.2009.07.16

Today you've got blacks not only on all kinds of newspapers but on TV screens and on radio, public relations jobs in great corporations, and that is an area of progress that I think I helped to open up a little bit."

VOA: special.2009.11.01