Sentence examples for persons of colour from inspiring English sources

In antebellum days, free persons of colour were musicians, poets, journalists, business entrepreneurs, and landlords.

All free persons of colour were given until 1842 to leave Texas unless they were able to get Congress to exempt them.

New Orleans's population in 1803 was approximately 8,000, consisting of 4,000 whites and 2,700 enslaved and about 1,300 free persons of colour.

From the late 1870s, Southern state legislatures, no longer controlled by carpetbaggers and freedmen, passed laws requiring the separation of whites from "persons of colour" in public transportation and schools.

As a successful and very "presentable" young woman…" Meanwhile, on Wednesday the Times Literary Supplement, in a column called Identity Crisis, called Howe's win one of "a series of successes on the British prize circuit for persons of colour", then goes on mainly about writers of colour objecting to being given tokenistic prizes.

Generally, anyone of ascertainable or strongly suspected black ancestry in any degree was for that purpose a "person of colour"; the pre-Civil War distinction favouring those whose ancestry was known to be mixed particularly the half-French "free persons of colour" in Louisiana was abandoned.

Not one person of colour or from the beneficiary country.

Being a person of colour in the music industry isn't easy, nor is it easy being a person of colour in the public eye.

As a person of colour my solidarity lies first and foremost with people of colour.

This bill will lead to every person of colour's worst fear: more concerned white people.

This is why you need a person of colour at the table.