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

Another way the state governments in the South acted against blacks was by refusing to give them the right to vote.

VOA: special.2010.01.21

At that time there were laws in the South that required blacks to give their seats on buses to whites.

VOA: special.2010.04.16

Congress passed several other bills giving the federal government power to protect the rights of blacks in the southern states.

VOA: special.2010.01.21

Share-cropping made it possible for blacks to work the land for themselves for the first time in their lives.

VOA: special.2010.02.04

David Odoviano wants to know about the history of interracial marriages in the United States, especially those between blacks and whites.

VOA: special.2010.09.03

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

Benjamin Hooks was born in Memphis,Tennessee, at a time when the southern city discriminated against blacks in all areas of public life.

VOA: special.2010.04.24

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

That night, at meetings throughout the city, blacks in Montgomery agreed to continue to boycott the city buses until their mistreatment stopped.

VOA: special.2009.03.08

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

Two hundred thousand blacks joined the Union Army of the North to fight the Southern separatist Confederate Army.

VOA: special.2011.02.11

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

VOA: special.2010.01.21

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

By the end of the war, more than two hundred thousand blacks had joined the armed services.

VOA: special.2010.05.10

In nineteen forty-one, a leader in the black community,A.Philip Randolph, threatened to lead a giant march on Washington for civil rights for blacks.

VOA: special.2011.06.30

Historians say the first paper published by blacks in the United States was Freedom's Journal.

VOA: special.2009.04.20

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

VOA: special.2010.04.24

One way radical Republicans gained support was by helping give blacks the right to vote.

VOA: special.2010.02.04

He attended Morehouse College, one of the few colleges in the South open to blacks.

VOA: special.2011.01.17

They did the same thing to whites who tried to organize or help blacks.

VOA: special.2010.02.18