Sentence examples for under negro from inspiring English sources

In "The Prostrate State: South Carolina Under Negro Government," published in 1873, the journalist James Shepherd Pike described a set of circumstances in which the white population was imperilled by the presence of black elected officials in the state legislature.

Lloyd Paul Stryker, who wrote a highly-favorable 1929 biography of Johnson, labeled Stevens as a "horrible old man ... craftily preparing to strangle the bleeding, broken body of the South" and who thought it would be "a beautiful thing" to see "the white men, especially the white women of the South, writhing under negro domination".

Under Capricorn, two Negro lovers, daring the wild beasts and evil spirits, for love of one another, crouched together in a cane brake where the fire-flies hovered.

1937 Court Rules Against Georgia Law WASHINGTON — In a five-to-four decision, the United States Supreme Court today [April 26] invalidated a sixty-six-year-old Georgia law prohibiting insurrection against the state, under which a Negro Communist had been sentenced to a prison term of from eighteen to twenty years.

The New York Times ran a typical story under the headline "NEGRO COCAINE FIENDS – NEW SOUTHERN MENACE".

The Ledger reported on May 18, under the headline "Negro Female Prisoner Gets Unruly," that on May 13 Laura had been "bad," when the jailer, Lawrence Payne, brought her dinner.

Just as she got under way, a big Negro crossed the street in front of her.

In 1962, the federal government changed all such place names under its jurisdiction to "Negro".

With Reconstruction having ended in 1877, another invented memory -- how the South had suffered under what was called Negro rule -- was widely accepted among Northern and Southern whites.

Del Negro came under further scrutiny in Game 2, after Ray Allen's 3-pointer with two seconds remaining put the Celtics ahead, 118-115.

His emphasis on families headed by women led him to be accused of blaming the victims for their predicament, but in fact he wrote clearly, "It was by destroying the Negro family under slavery that white America broke the will of the Negro people".