At one time some forty percent of rural southern blacks were learning at Rosenwald elementary schools.

The Alexandra church is simultaneously a spiritual refuge and a processing center for rural blacks new to the city.

Additionally, only 5% of rural blacks had access to any public institution at all.

He wanted the work to depict rural blacks realistically as he knew them to be.

Historically, political support for the land rights of Brazil's rural blacks has been weak or nonexistent.

He shows how draconian drug laws devised with big cities in mind can fall most heavily on poor rural blacks.

Built in 1896, it served generations of rural blacks as a schoolhouse and community meeting hall.

Her subjects range from middle class whites to poor rural blacks, musicians, politicians, lawyers and trade unionists.

There the grandmother and mother shared old family tales in the oral tradition of rural blacks throughout Kentucky.

Once word reached the impoverished black homelands, rural blacks set out for this promised land.