Sentence examples for black merchant from inspiring English sources

Addressed to the bureau's director, J. Edgar Hoover, the letter pleaded for justice in the killing of a well-respected black merchant.

The girls were the daughters of a prosperous black merchant; Prior, an ardent abolitionist, painted them straight and not as caricatures, an approach that was unusual for the time, Ms. Troyen said.

He typically presented a demand note to the bank teller out of a black merchant's bag and left the scene without incident.

In 2011, an FBI investigation dubbed Smoking Dragon —government agents must have a great time naming their operations — targeted a Chinese black-market merchant in Los Angeles named Yi Qing Chen.

Impressed by the economic strides made by black merchants in the Greenwood district of Tulsa, Okla., Booker T. Washington called the area "black Wall Street".

During the civil disturbances of the 1960's, rioters spared black merchants with the foresight to mount a "Soul Brother" sign in their windows.

"Brother, let reason and judgment prevail!" boomed the voice of the Rev. Isaiah Gaines, a retired judge and black leader who walked the streets near the New Prospect Baptist Church, greeting black residents and white and black merchants.

"I'll go a little farther and pay a few cents more for something and give it to a brother rather than go somewhere they don't even know how to talk to me," said Virginia Taylor-Hughes, owner of a Western Avenue furniture store and head of a predominantly black merchants group.

Before, one explains, you could buy a maximum of two gallons a day and black-market merchants supplied the rest.

"The money is in the truck with my driver," Odile says with gun moll aplomb as she buys the May Day flags from a band of black-market merchants.

"They don't speak to us," Carol Morton, a sixty-seven-year-old black art merchant, told a reporter.