Black people have been members of Mormon congregations since its foundation, but before 1978 its black membership was small.

Many union leaders have been solicitous toward Mr. Jackson, in part because of their large black memberships.

Rall, a white man, was accused of racism by Project 21, a conservative organization with black membership.

The union has a largely black membership.

To this day, the church has a fairly large black membership for a church led by a white pastor.

Thus, he said, joining the two areas would undermine increasing black membership on the City Council.

In order to raise black membership he spoke in a thick Japanese accent.

Local 186 had the largest black membership in Memphis, and allowed the strikers to use their union hall for meetings.

The Southern Democratic leadership greatly discouraged black membership, and many blacks felt that they had no political party in which to participate.

The tribes fought black membership from the very beginning, but the federal courts have upheld the treaties again and again.