Sentence examples for black settlements from inspiring English sources

His church lies in one of the oldest black settlements in the city, where unemployment is high and many people see immigrants as competitors for jobs.

The biggest shell was called Seneca Village, which in the 19th century was one of the principal black settlements in New York City.

So the government of President Fernando Henrique Cardoso has used its decree power to begin the process of identifying and registering the black settlements.

A resonant survey of his work from 1948 to 2009 at the Jewish Museum, records the everyday particulars of a racially divided country in images of white suburbs and black settlements, Afrikaner nationalist political rallies and Soweto soccer games.

Stephen Douglas, his rival in 1858 for a Senate seat now occupied by Mr Obama, gave warning that Lincoln would confer "upon the Negro the rights and privileges of citizenship" and "cover your prairies with black settlements".

So, as a Brooklynite - I know it is one of places of significant black settlements and heritage in Brooklyn.

As interest in black history developed in the 1980s, Woods provided invaluable information about pre-Windrush black settlement in Britain.

Municipal Art Society Black History Tour (Saturday) A tour of Trinity Church cemetery in Upper Manhattan will cover the cemetery's prominence in the history of early black settlement in New York City.

County commissioners agreed to buy 16 acres adjacent to Fort Mose, home of the first free black settlement in North America, to stop development of the property.

As the Paramus houses passed from the Zabriskies to black farmers believed to be former Zabriskie slaves, they helped seed a thriving black settlement of several houses and a church that lasted into the 1930s.

"Later I understood that these empty fields were indeed the setting of a history, the loathsome history of neglect and destruction stretching back to the beginning of black settlement in Harlem," she tells us.