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Mr. McCoy said that in his experience most blacks remained firmly opposed.

For decades, most Southern blacks remained propertyless and poor.

Official emancipation did not substantially alter the economic situation of most blacks who remained in the south.

It was an era both when Jim Crow still reigned and the first signs of black activism and political power were appearing; when lynchings persisted but the campaign against them grew more powerful; when blacks remained barred from most professional sports but won Olympic medals.

Blacks remain the most highly segregated minority in the nation despite changes over the last 20 years, the Census Bureau said.

They are likely to keep the loyalty of most blacks, who have never shown much sign of defecting; and blacks remain electorally the more important minority, looming larger in America's moral imagination and mattering more in swing states.

White creditors felt it politically unwise to foreclose, so most "black chip" companies remain in black hands.

But with most blacks and whites still living in separate communities, even interracial friendships remain quite uncommon.

Although public education was desegregated in 1994, most former black schools remain overwhelmingly black because they are generally in deprived black areas, whereas the former white schools tend to have a good racial mix because middle-class blacks have moved into their catchment areas.

They have built market share and acquired titles, concessions and licenses from corrupt officials, run protection rackets and ensured that most markets remain black.

Most media coverage remained in black and white, however, and the first opportunity for many of the world's football fans to see a yellow shirt in action was at the 1970 World Cup in Mexico - the first to be shown in colour television.