She shook a little bell on the table, and a small black girl about 12 years old ran into the room.

VOA: special.2009.01.17

She is a woman who looks very white but is categorized as black in that system of the South.

事实是，她虽比较白,但还是一个南方的黑人。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Some of you-- some of the population of the United States are not going to vote for somebody because he or she is black but they won't tell you but they know it to be true.

你们有些人…,美国当中有些人,不会投某些人一票,因为她或他是黑人，但他们不会说出来,但他们很清楚这是他们的真实想法。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

In the nineteen forties, she was the first black woman to sign a long-term agreement with a major Hollywood movie studio.

VOA: special.2010.05.14

During one event, she noted that German prisoners of war were permitted to sit closer to the stage than black soldiers.

VOA: special.2010.05.23

She was famous for her beauty. Madame Pierre Gautreau is wearing a low-cut black dress that shows off her pale skin.

VOA: special.2010.08.04

In nineteen eighty-seven, she founded the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self-Development to improve the lives of black children.

VOA: special.2009.03.08

She won easily. She was the first woman and first black to be elected to Congress to represent Texas.

VOA: special.2010.05.09

She shook a little bell on the table, and a small black girl about twelve years old ran into the room.

VOA: special.2010.06.12

She won. Barbara Jordan became the first black person to serve in the Texas Senate since eighteen eighty-three.

VOA: special.2010.05.09

She said when white audiences saw her, they were busy seeing their own idea of a black woman.

VOA: special.2010.05.23

Samuel Clifton said she was the first black woman to be legally hanged in the state of Virginia.

VOA: special.2010.04.18

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

VOA: special.2009.06.07

In two thousand seven, she became the first black woman to receive the Ruth Lily Poetry Prize.

VOA: special.2010.04.18

She wanted to make sure she would be judged as a singer who happened to be black - not as a black singer.

VOA: special.2009.01.18

Then he said if the Princess wore black glasses she would not be able to see anything.

VOA: special.2009.03.28

The D.A.R. would not permit Anderson to perform in the concert hall because she was black.

VOA: special.2009.01.25

She said the richness of black culture existed to be enjoyed, celebrated and made into literature.

VOA: special.2009.02.22

She became one of the few black people at the time wealthy enough to give huge amounts of money to help people and organizations.

VOA: special.2010.03.28

In her stories,she described Eatonville as a place where black Americans could live as they pleased.

VOA: special.2009.02.22

The fact she was black and a woman did not seem to slow Barbara Jordan's rise.

VOA: special.2010.05.09

Her hands shook as she pinned on her hat and covered herself with her black veil.

VOA: special.2010.05.15

She knew then that if another black woman could play the piano so could she.

VOA: special.2009.01.18

She then started her own business of developing and selling hair-care products for black women.

VOA: special.2010.03.28

"Oh,she is away," the man sighed, putting the picture back on the little black shelf.

VOA: special.2009.07.04

She helped break racial barriers by changing the way black women were represented in film.

VOA: special.2010.05.23

She met other young black writers of the time, such as poet Langston Hughes.

VOA: special.2009.02.22

She was one of the first black singers to perform with a white band.

VOA: special.2010.02.28

She said she was angry about the treatment of black people in America.

VOA: special.2009.10.04

The Lady in Black knew the way. Yet,she stumbled and reached out blindly.

VOA: special.2010.05.15