In the nineteen sixties, a major black civil rights group declared it the national song of black people in America.

VOA: special.2009.10.04

It about a newly wealthy black family that moved into a New York City high-rise with mostly white neighbors.

VOA: special.2009.05.04

Professor Robinson says it is not clear when the first marriage between a black person and a white person took place.

VOA: special.2010.09.03

It was there that young Billie first heard the records of famous black American blues artists of the nineteen twenties.

VOA: special.2010.02.28

It said each of the states needed a new constitution that protected the voting rights of all black men.

VOA: special.2010.02.04

Some black clergymen said that if black people were supposed to have straight hair, God would have given it to them.

VOA: special.2010.03.28

It is the story of a black woman's search for happiness and her true identity, during twenty-five years and three marriages.

VOA: special.2009.02.22

But it could not be denied that the plan was a way to get black people out of the United States.

VOA: special.2009.04.16

She said if her choices were bad it would not help the black actors who came after her.

VOA: special.2009.06.07

Standing at the entrance of the tunnel I could see ahead of me a darkness so absolutely black it seemed a solid.

VOA: special.2009.12.07

Marian Anderson's presence made it possible for other black singers to become opera singers in the United States.

VOA: special.2009.01.25

It told about how mobs of white men had killed black men by hanging them from trees.

VOA: special.2010.02.28

It has flowers like stars and shiny berries that start out green and turn purple to black.

VOA: special.2009.08.25

It was led by local black leader E.D.Nixon and a young black minister, Martin Luther King,Junior.

VOA: special.2009.03.08