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

At training camp, he and the 12 other African-Americans in his squadron of 200 were automatically segregated from the whites.

VOA: standard.2010.04.16

Afghan and Sri Lankan inmates have been segregated while authorities investigate the cause of the fights.

VOA: standard.2009.11.24

Benjamin Hooks was born in 1925 in Memphis,Tennessee - a city,like most in the racially- segregated American South at the time, that discriminated against African-Americans in all areas of public life.

VOA: standard.2010.04.16

During the 1950s, Hooks and the NAACP helped to organize many of the black-led boycotts of segregated white businesses, and non-violent sit-in protests that became emblematic of the burgeoning civil rights movement led by Martin Luther King,Jr.

VOA: standard.2010.04.16