Example sentences for: fair-skinned

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

  • The NAACP in particular was chock full of fair-skinned members of the black middle class.

  • This inheritance most often arrived at the bedroom door in the form of a fair-skinned black person who had slipped over the color line to live as white.

  • Though either white or a fair-skinned mulatto, "Bliss," as the senator was known as a boy, was raised by Hickman to be a black minister.

  • Stuckert's tables show that during the 1940s alone, roughly 15,550 fair-skinned blacks per year slipped across the color line--about 155,500 for the decade.

  • In cities such as Charleston, S.C., and New Orleans, for example, white families and their fair-skinned black relatives lived so close together that they bumped into each other on the street.


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