Example sentences for: all-black

How can you use “all-black” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • What more need be said about the name given to Selma's all-black housing project, the Nathan B. Forrest Homes, than what Horwitz dryly observes: "an odd choice, given Forrest's notoriety as a slave trader and Imperial Wizard of the KKK"?

  • If there weren't all-black ghetto high schools, then admitting the top X Percent of each school wouldn't have the effect of admitting so many blacks.

  • Reviews of Morrison's first post-Nobel novel, a Faulknerish tale of an all-black town in Oklahoma, are mixed.

  • The presence of whites, especially affluent ones, in once all-black schools lifted those schools' quality, since white parents' complaints about outdated textbooks, sub par teachers, and dilapidated facilities were heeded by school officials.

  • The dynamic could easily work the other way--with the X Percent solution in education becoming an instrument for furthering residential segregation, as black families with high-performing students decide to keep their kids in all-black neighborhoods because that will virtually guarantee their kids a ticket to college.


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