11.   A federal court upheld a Georgia redistricting plan Tuesday that would reduce the number of state legislative districts with black majorities.

12.   A narrowly divided Court last year said in a North Carolina case that black majority districts with especially odd configurations could be unconstitutional.

13.   After integration, Petersburg High School, which had been predominantly white, had a black majority.

14.   But a group of white voters challenged the district, saying the main motivation for redrawing it was to try to create a district with a black majority.

15.   But prosperity has been slower than expected in reaching the black majority.

16.   But Republicans who will draw new congressional districts in many states refuse to go along, saying dilution of current black majorities would violate civil rights laws.

17.   But their power over the black majority is no more.

18.   Chinamasa said the European Union was trying to stop the government from undoing the legacy of colonialism by redistributing land from the white minority to the black majority.

19.   De Klerk is probably the man most responsible for persuading white South Africans to assent to democracy and surrender their power to the black majority.

20.   For the Confederation of South African Trade Unions, it was its first nationwide strike under black majority rule.