51.  In most cases, as in several other tribes relocated to Oklahoma, black members began as slaves.

52.  In South Carolina, House Democrats struggled throughout the day to find a compromise that black House members would support.

53.  In Illinois, Republican Peter Fitzgerald defeated Democratic Senator Carol Moseley-Braun, the only black member of the Senate.

54.  In the Democratic-controlled Congress that just adjourned, Lewis was the highest-ranking black member of the party leadership.

55.  It is widely believed that the new method will make it easier to elect black members.

56.  It never had a black member, and no more than one woman at a time.

57.  Its board of governors was international, and the group was quite rigid in enforcing a policy that prohibited black members.

58.  Keenan Keller, an aide to Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., also described the meeting between Annan and black members of Congress as fruitful.

59.  Many of the most elite and expensive golf clubs still have no black members.

60.  Meanwhile, some Democrats and black members of Congress applauded the president and criticized GOP candidates for making an issue of affirmative action.