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

VOA: special.2010.02.18

And Alan Lomax had somevery compelling and really engaging stories to tell about actually painting himself up in blackface so that he could go into black communities, so that some of the whites wouldn't single him out and beat him up or whatever."

VOA: special.2010.01.18

They've been heading out extra early this week to beat the heat.

VOA: standard.2010.07.20