She knew it wasn't so long ago that blacks couldn't join various clubs or live in certain neighborhoods.

About 400 to 1000 free blacks went to London and joined the free black community of about 10,000 there.

The first two blacks joined the department in 1968 after the state Division of Human Rights obtained a court order.

Middle-class blacks joined in, wanting to demonstrate against systemic inequality more than they wanted to steal for their own benefit.

The blacks happily joined with the whites during the Confederate Veterans parade.

The next day you wonder why more blacks won't join.

But too many blacks, including her son, have joined solely for the paycheck or college tuition, she asserts.

Hall proposed that the Massachusetts Committee of Safety allow blacks to join the military.

During the war nearly 200,000 blacks, most of them ex-slaves, joined the Union Army.

But if they fly to pattern, only a few blacks, at most, will join the flock.