"I look at her as a black pioneer," Mr. Meek said.

Another influential black pioneer of the time, and a friend of the Robinson's, was America Newton.

Mr. Joel praised rock's black pioneers, and teased his critics.

All this was done in an effort to make sure that these black pioneers and their cemetery would not be forgotten again.

There were also large numbers of black pioneers and other non-combatant troops.

As a descendant of Harlem's black pioneers, Alyssa, 15, has a sense of perspective.

The black pioneers of rock-and-roll were not giving America unfettered race testimony or self-expression.

Cholera breaks out, killing the wife of the black pioneer.

So much of what we know of California black pioneers grows out of her book.

The 19th-century black American pioneers pushing westward in "Crossing the River" (1993), for example.