Sentence examples for black travellers from inspiring English sources

Under the Baileys' ownership, the Lorraine Motel became a safe haven for black travellers and visitors to Memphis.

She sat in a segregated bus station, where black travellers had to use the back door, and was arrested and incarcerated.

Such were the racial politics of Queens in that era that, as the historian Martha Biondi points out in "To Stand and Fight," a history of the civil-rights movement in New York, LaGuardia airport, in northern Queens, enacted a demure form of segregation of black travellers in the fifties.

The BBC Travel Show looks at how a guide helped black travellers during segregation.

Upon reaching the waterfall, he was cheered by the black travellers from the bus, but he was saddened by their being unable to resist the policy of segregation at the time.

It hangs adjacent to Henri Rousseau's crowd-pleasing canvas "The Sleeping Gypsy" (1897), an oneiric scene of a black woman traveller, safely at rest and attended by a peaceable lion.

In 1961 integrated teams of black and white travellers staged bus journeys, or 'Freedom Rides', across the South, challenging segregation laws along the way.

We didn't, and paid dearly for it – if exchanged on the thriving black market (which most travellers do), you got twice as many bolivars for your dollar.

However, the writer adds: "Given the economic situation and the black market exchange rate, travellers will actually end up paying around a fiver a night.

A pair of contraband Levi's could fetch $90 on Russia's black market, and American travellers financed European holidays by selling extra pairs.

The second issue was also high quality, with another Pavane story and a short story by John Brunner from his "Traveller in Black" series.