Most southern blacks had been denied opportunities for education literacy by laws before the Civil War.

These were used to keep southern blacks from voting in the bad old days.

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

Democratic Party leaders raised the specter of a deluge of southern blacks.

All these are foods commonly eaten by southern blacks.

African Americans from northern units did fight in southern battles and some southern blacks were allowed to be a substitute for their master.

It quickly spread north and became popularized along with the migration of southern blacks to areas like Chicago.

Lomax was the first prominent scholar to study distinctly American folk music such as that of cowboys and southern blacks.

It was a courageous policy, which became increasingly difficult to sustain in face of the violence to which southern blacks were subjected.

The group wanted to emphasize nonviolence as a means of bringing about social progress and racial justice for southern blacks.