What is "people of color"

Usage examples of "people of color".

In 1964 in Yemassee, South Carolina, white girls, even lower income white girls, did not marry people of color.

Word had come down from on high to promote women and people of color whenever possible.

Still, Winston was a man of the world, and you don't indulge the fantasy of molesting dolphins without becoming familiar with the ways of people of color, for that is who dolphins prefer to hang out with, when they aren't hanging out with the Cousteaus, or so it appeared on the Discovery Channel.

Another example of the way the white man demonizes people of color.

However, the only people of color in this land are of American Indian ancestry, and interracial unions are quite rare and, I'm afraid, not socially condoned.

He did not consider Negro an unacceptable term for People of Color and had never heard of Jomo Kenyatta, Steve Biko, Robert Mugabe, or Eldridge Cleaver.

Then, stepping to the next place, she might utter a pleasant but restrained little trill of laughter and ask so-and-so how their boy so-and-so was coming along down there at Morehouse, and wasn't it wonderful to have such a fine school for people of color, just the most wonderful!

He says if it's not, the name could be offensive to people of color and he wants to know why the rest of us continue to call him that.