Sentence examples for coloured man from inspiring English sources

This coloured man in London would be a double oddity; first for his colour, and then for his class.

Mary (WB): 'And they sent a doctor down to assess Mike, refill this form in, he was an Asian man, and he come to the end of it, and he looked at Mike and he said 'Well there's two things wrong.' He said 'One, the pot's running out of money.' He said 'Secondly your skin's the wrong colour.' And I thought 'Well that's great coming from a coloured man!" [ laughter ].

He became minister of native affairs in 1950 and was prime minister from 1958 until 1966, when Dimitri Tsafendas, a Coloured man, assassinated him in Parliament.

He stands up for the younger generation, declaring to his father: "You think of yourself as a coloured man, I think of myself as a man".

'In Southall, Birmingham and Bradford, I was told that "an old lady of 68" had been accosted by a coloured man,' he writes.

She is a worthy successor to Edison Arantes do Nascimento, aka Pelé, the first coloured man to serve as a minister (of sport) in 1994.

"We now refuse to post coloured men to 'white units,'" the memo reads.

Wayvinne plays up to the image of coloured men being ruffians.

As Detective Sergeant Walters reported on the third night there was a "large group of coloured men" walking along Ladbroke Grove: "What can only be described as a mob were shouting threats and abuse, and openly displaying various most offensive weapons, ranging from iron bars to choppers and open razors.

As far back as 1955, the managing director of a rubber firm that employed black workers had told the Wolverhampton newspaper: 'There is not antipathy of any kind between white employees and the coloured men.' As a policeman in 1968, Mellor recalls little tension between the communities.

It was built as a diocesan memorial to the Coloured men who paid the ultimate sacrifice for their country.