These laws forced black people to attend separate schools, live in separate areas of a city and sit in separate areas on a bus.

VOA: special.2009.03.08

On New Year's Day, after church we'll go out and sit in the goose pit and do some hunting for Canada geese and also ducks."

VOA: special.2009.12.28

And here I sit in my living room, there's nothing that I can do.

VOA: special.2010.02.01

Wealthier people could buy more costly tickets to sit in other areas.

VOA: special.2010.01.06

Only white people could sit in the front part of the bus.

VOA: special.2010.02.07

After eating,they would sit in the living room and read.

VOA: special.2009.03.07

A white family wanted to sit in their place.

VOA: special.2009.10.04

Both groups could sit in a middle area.

VOA: special.2009.03.08

They also demanded that the city hire black bus drivers and that anyone be permitted to sit in the middle of the bus and not have to get up for anyone else.

VOA: special.2009.03.08

Racist laws required African Americans to drink from separate public drinking fountains, climb back stairs to sit in the balconies of theaters, and wait in much smaller rooms at bus and train stations.

VOA: standard.2010.03.04

People also sit on the beach and on rocks in the fishing village of Menemsha to watch the sunsets.

VOA: special.2011.07.25

But first, a report on the anniversary of the Greensboro sit-in and the opening of a civil rights museum to honor it.

VOA: special.2010.01.29

And once he said: "Four-fifths of our troubles in this life would disappear if we would only sit down and keep still."

VOA: special.2010.12.23

However,black people sitting in that part of the bus were expected to leave their seats if a white person wanted to sit there.

VOA: special.2009.03.08