1.   And, of course, there were the Jim Crow laws that kept blacks at the backdoors and in the backs of buses.

2.   According to police, the teen-agers later bragged about keeping blacks out of the neighborhood.

3.   Foley questions whether there was any effort at all to keep blacks from the polls in Florida.

4.   He commanded the government forces that battered down the walls that kept blacks out of restaurants, theaters, motels, and southern voting booths.

5.   He is credited with opening doors at the LAPD for African-Americans at a time when racial barriers kept blacks from advancing.

6.   In the supercharged atmosphere of the civil rights movement, whites were determined to keep blacks from registering to vote and gaining political power.

7.   It kept blacks out of white areas and controlled riots.

8.   Johnson was proudest of the voting rights act, which outlawed all the sneaky practices that kept blacks from the ballot box.

9.   Keeping blacks out of union jobs is potentially damaging for organized labor.

10.   Landis refused and went to his grave knowing that he had kept blacks out of baseball.