Their lyrics often dealt with social issues facing African-American people.

"African-American people must know that they have the right to go anywhere in this city and to go there in safety."

Then, of course, we taught them that these were contributions of African-American people.

The university was the first owned by African-American people, and is a historically black college.

He was kind to the African-American people and gave them some property to live on and a place to bury their loved ones.

From the beginning, the African-American peoples played a significant role in the war.

Very small population of African-American and foreign born people.

Before this, African-American people were not seen as citizens.

The African-American people must lead the fight to change the system.

The civil war had just ended, and freed African-American people were migrating to the nation's capital in large numbers.