Related by context. Frequent words. (Click for all words.) 53 longshoreman 50 sharecropper 47 grandfather 47 transcontinental railroad 47 slaves 46 Jim Crow 45 indentured servants 45 Negroes 45 Al Jolson 45 freed slaves 45 merchant marine 45 frontiersman 44 seaman 44 enslaved Africans 43 blacks 43 railroad 43 spirituals 43 mulatto 43 hobo 43 ragtime 43 steamship 42 Woody Guthrie 42 cabdriver 42 Bessie 42 Abraham Lincoln 42 Shakespearean actor 42 slave 42 railroads 42 Negro League 42 negro 42 sugar plantations 41 Tuskegee Airman 41 bluesmen 41 janitor 41 sharecroppers 41 menial jobs 41 Harlem Renaissance 41 Depression era 41 newspaperman 41 jazzman 41 runaway slave 41 Teddy Roosevelt 41 Yankee Doodle Dandy 41 Theodore Roosevelt 41 Franklin Roosevelt 41 Harriet Tubman 41 #th century 41 Duke Ellington 41 John Steinbeck 41 Merchant Marines 41 FDR 41 steamboats 40 WEB DuBois 40 Negro 40 bellhop 40 Sidney Poitier 40 Civilian Conservation Corps 40 slaveholders 40 busboy 40 Civil Rights Movement 40 machinist 40 enslaved 40 Willy Loman 40 roughneck 40 indentured 40 deckhand 40 hobos 40 bluesman 40 slavery 40 seamstress 40 laborer 39 Harry Belafonte 39 Satchel Paige 39 paternal grandfather 39 ballplayers 39 cotton gin 39 Confederate soldier 39 Douglas MacArthur 39 Negro leagues 39 hard scrabble 39 Humphrey Bogart 39 shoeshine 39 International Harvester 39 Josephine Baker 39 Studs Terkel 39 Poitier 39 steam locomotives 39 steamboat 39 Harry Truman 39 Crispus Attucks 39 blacksmith 39 Benny Goodman 39 Roosevelt 39 minstrel 39 Franklin Delano Roosevelt 39 vaudeville 39 Abe Lincoln 38 Fats Waller 38 revolutionaries 38 WEB Du Bois 38 Franklin D. Roosevelt