But Robinson also became an instant celebrity, drawing huge cheering crowds, black and white, to the ballparks where he played.

They were a largely black crowd, young women and retired men, elderly couples and families with children.

"It's designed to deal with a small white crowd in comfort and a large black crowd in discomfort."

One of the elders stepped away from that fluttering black crowd.

County police officers at the pool entrance scrutinize the heavily black and Spanish crowd.

The landing field close to the city, and directly at the ocean, was ringed by a black crowd of people.

However, hostility between the largely black crowd and the largely white police force quickly escalated into a series of street battles.

Many tourists said today that black crowds had shouted to them threateningly.

It wasn't that we were white in a predominantly black crowd.

What was always a white crowd, for Romans at public affairs were togate, had become a black crowd.