What is "coloreds"

Usage examples of "coloreds".

And we – Coloreds, abolitionists and Republicans, – became the target of their hate, as much as the conscription provost and his men, if not more so.

The coloreds and us, we been living side by side down here for a couple hundred years.

It wasn't the coloreds that brought in the League, not King and his SCLC.

If the people around him despise the coloreds and hate the Germans, they do not exactly love Yankees, either.

Even if some of the coloreds was helpin' out the SCLC like folks said, they was only a few.

We simply got the wrong coloreds, not the ones who fired off those shotguns in Griffith Park.

District Six belonged mainly to the coloreds and only a few black Africans lived or worked there as watchmen or caretakers in the schools.

And off and on the coloreds get in the habit of burning down their own houses.

I'll bet you don't have any married whites and coloreds coming in here do you?

Under a banner of American concerns: liberty, justice and free enterprise, the seditious Japs portrayed this democracy as a land of lynched Negroes and limited opportunities for coloreds, even though the Nisei were emerging as middle-class merchants when the war broke out.

If anything, it has stiffened the resolve of the whites, the Indians, the coloreds, and many blacks, as well, to stand firm against outside inter­vention.

George’s place, where the coloreds get their hair cut, and walked in and snatched up a razor and walked out without a howdy or a by-your-leave or a go-to-hell neither, and by the time we caught up to him, he’d done laid that old boy open like a hog, and was sitting on the porch waiting on the yaller woman to come home, so he could do the same for her.

Only a few coloreds like me could be seen -- mostly waiters serving their bland-skinned betters at canopied tables.

That's when rules relax, archies feel less territorial, and coloreds like me can safely visit.