Example sentences for: negroes

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

  • Testifying before a congressional committee in 1872, Alabama Democrat William M. Lowe explained, "A carpetbagger is generally understood to be a man who comes here for office sake, of an ignorant or bad character, and who seeks to array the negroes against the whites."

  • Whites find him agreeable for the two reasons that they find any black intellectual agreeable: he makes what he knows about Negroes interesting but not threatening; he knows a great deal of white intellectual stuff, which whites always find amusing and entertaining in a Negro.

  • 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).

  • One leading citizen criticizes the NAACP as a bunch of "stir-up Negroes" for bringing desegregation suits in Oklahoma.

  • We told those white liberals years ago that you couldn't expect more from Negroes."


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