Example sentences for: negroes

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

  • I saw equally severe prejudice against people of darker skin, often including Negroes, by non-Whites in two major Asian countries in which I worked (1968-70, 1978-83) and in fourteen sub-Saharan African countries in which I worked (1972-74).

  • But they are almost certainly based on the founders of a very real town called Langston, Okla., settled by Negroes in 1890 and named for the black educator and Reconstruction congressman, John M. Langston.

  • Undeniably, there is prejudice against Negroes in many Western societies, and, as long as that prejudice exists, it will attach to the name of those against whom the prejudice is felt or practiced.

  • The early vaqueros, those of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, were mestizos, Indians, Negroes, and mulattos.

  • Glazer expanded on this theme in his best-known work, Beyond the Melting Pot: The Negroes, Puerto Ricans, Jews, Italians, and Irish of New York City , published in 1963 and co-authored by Daniel Patrick Moynihan.


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