He said black poverty and joblessness continued to increase.

A large fraction of black segregation is explained by black poverty, since you can't move out until you've moved up.

While analyzing various statistics concerning black poverty he noticed something unusual:

Some of these were highly educated family men, still believing that the reason for black poverty was black laziness.

The long books about the black poverty of cities became quite insupportable.

The reported dip in black poverty below the 30 percent level is welcome, if it starts a trend.

The two Americans wore only black socks on their feet "to symbolize black poverty," they would say later.

And always, in the North and the South, there is the persistence of hard-core black poverty.

But he said that black poverty had nevertheless spread, both in numbers and in the area in which it is concentrated.

And what about black poverty, the poverty of the underclass?