He said that it was degrading for a colored man to bow to a white man. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had a cocky little hat and colored ropes over his shoulders. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s always ranting and raving about how awful colored people are. That's when he’s not yelling at my mother and smacking her around.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Some of these clouds are colored green throughout the south end: Aberdeen, Hoquiam, Olympia. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The moment I have one colored pencil in my hand, I’m itching to drop it and grab another one. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

I was used to problems and different rules for colored and white. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone who lived and worked on the farm was in attendance, as well as the families from the neighboring colored farms. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The stairs coming up from Tata’s room on the first floor were marble, with a landing in between, and a colored glass window with bunches of grapes and twirling vines. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Reynie entered to find Mr. Benedict alone in the room, seated on the floor with his back against the desk, surrounded by books, papers, and a variety of colored pens. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

I opened the box and found a brand new Shahnamah, a hardback with glossy colored illustrations beneath the passages. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

There was frequent talk now of lighting out west, where colored towns sprouted up on the other side of the Arkansas River. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

It was Igbo colored by the sliding sounds of English, the Igbo of one who spoke English often. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Among "colored persons" in that age group, the rate was 70 percent. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Freemen informed on their African brothers and sisters, comparing the descriptions of runaways in the gazettes with the furtive creatures slinking around the colored churches, saloons, and meeting houses. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Or the girl who sided with Hirohito Woods and made me feel ignorant for not knowing he was half colored and half Japanese. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

This group of five or six colored boys was up the street picking berries off the mulberry tree and eating them. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Ana colored, asking unconvincingly, “Why would I do that?” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Wilson had changed her costume some time before and was now attired in an elaborate afternoon dress of cream colored chiffon, which gave out a continual rustle as she swept about the room. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

I hate the whole white race and will work always so that the colored race can achieve revenge for all their sufferings. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

When they changed trains in Birmingham for the last leg of the trip, they discovered what luxury they had been in through Kentucky and Tennessee, where the rest stops had all had colored toilets. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“We’re going to swim, paddle canoes, and go to the aquarium to see all the beautifully colored fish. And then we’ll have a picnic lunch.” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

All colored people will organize and there will be a revolution, and at the close colored people will take up all the territory east of the Mississippi and south of the Potomac. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

They had been riding up a gentle slope toward a line of brightly colored pavilions on the height. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he was the first colored person to set foot in the buildings apart from the men who built them, the women who cleaned them. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He had left the woman in her bed, the man on the bedroom floor, the older child in her brightly colored bedroom, surrounded by toys and half-finished models. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

He says he’s got to the bottom of why colored folks are treated bad and he’s going to tell the President and have things changed, see? Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The Three Kings on horseback on their way to meet El Nino, with everything and everyone made of wood and colored with house paint. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

“Everybody knows colored folks don’t have money to buy the stuff in this catalog,” Carolyn reasoned. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Four colored waitresses from Ernie’s Kitchen Shack pointed him out as the “colored boy who was at the table that night with the white man and the white woman.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

She knew that even in Pittsburgh, it was dangerous to go into the Polish or Irish neighborhoods because bad things happened to colored people, especially girls. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Later in the morning, Doha’s mother packed a small wooden container full of food, including fruit, and tied it with a brightly colored wrapping cloth for easy carrying. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Each night our presence was recorded on the quipus, colored strings tied to a long branch of wood. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Here it was again, the unlucky thing, in its brightly colored paper jacket. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Still, the other kids laughed at her and called her White Baby Lover and Big Baby, except for the boy who looked both colored and Chinese. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jessie, wearing jeans and a baggy navy hoodie, was perched on the steps leading to the dungeon with a pile of colored gumdrops and wooden toothpicks in neat piles around her. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

In comparison to the new colors I see around people, my colored letters now seem very dim. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

They got a sliding window on the back side so colored folk can get our ice cream too. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know. Maybe that is the reason why. I guess there is good and bad white folks, just like there is with colored.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s forty-six of those pieces of DNA in every human nucleus. We call those chromosomes —those are the things that were colored bright in that big picture I gave you.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

There wasn’t a rock, so he picked up a colored glass paperweight, hefted it in his hand, wondering if he could throw it hard enough to stop Abanazer Bolger in his tracks. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

As you climbed the stairs around and around, the outer windows would shine colored light through their stained glass. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

He was, in the language of the day, a “mulatto”; he was colored — and all of the Fords from that point on fell into Jamaica’s colored class. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

When the colored crowd showed up for the sit-in trial, the police department simply stepped back and turned the German shepherds loose. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Gwenforte doesn't seem to notice, and she goes splashing through the low surf, which is graying now, more lavender and cloud colored, as the sunset fades. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Streamers of colored paper are taped to the walls, with arrows of construction paper at intervals, along the halls and up and down the stairs and into the different rooms, to show the way. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Those colored schools are a big part of our history.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The sun seemed to topple down to the edge of the horizon and colored it crimson there until it was gulped by the sea and gone. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

While Helene looked about the tiny stationhouse for a door that said colored women, the other woman stalked off to a field of high grass on the far side of the track. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Mom hung paintings on the walls and stacked street finds in the living room and put colored bottles in the windows for that stained-glass effect. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“For the Fourth of July they’re holding a voters’ rally at the colored church. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom also built rows of shelves in the windows and arranged brightly colored bottles to catch the light. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

If this was not enough, they wore clip-on earbobs of various colored rhinestones and circles of rouge on their brown cheeks. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eggs hung in the door, bottles with colored fluids stood on a shelf. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

They were brown- colored and shaped like men, and icing had been used to make eyes, noses, and button coats. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

We mostly played other colored teams, but we were good enough that we drew some white fans who just liked to watch good baseball. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even Hopkins, which did treat black patients, segregated them in colored wards, and had colored-only fountains. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Several small, brightly colored objects zoomed out of George’s pocket; he made a grab for them but missed, and they sped right into Mrs. Weasley’s outstretched hand. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Before she left for the summer, she told me the boys would pay more attention to me if I colored my hair blond. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

I’d also used Magic Markers to make colored blotches on my legs that I hoped would camouflage the holes in my pants. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

In some small prairie towns people looked at me like they never seen a colored man before. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the colored folk in the state had been bought up by the government. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Every two days, a different colored woman will knock on Aibileen’s back door and sit at the table with me, tell me her stories. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Martin’s final bad omen happened that morning: A mob strung up a husband and wife who hid two colored boys in their barn. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

When Stephen and I draw with our colored pencils, he draws wars, ordinary wars and wars in space. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I looked down and was so flat-out embarrassed that I was grateful when a colored man who had big, blacksmith arms was patient ’nough to take careful aim with his punch and knock me cold! The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

“And she was with that colored girl who used to go to our school.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Up until then I’d thought that white people and colored people getting along was the big aim, but after that I decided everybody being colorless together was a better plan. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He does. I know because I bought something from him just a few weeks ago. He has a whole box of colored pencils.” The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Granny didn’t become colored,” my mother said angrily. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

It made her seem strange to the other colored residents, she knew, but seeming strange had not bothered her for a long time. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Some were topped with great domes of colored glass. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They both have gray hair and are dressed in brightly colored clothes. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

She had never seen colored men hold guns. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Meg colored, but a mischievous fancy to tease the girls made her reply demurely, “You are very kind, but I’m afraid he won’t come.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

He let the hunchback keep the disputed ticket and issued another one to the colored girl. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Much of the furniture in our house was garish and oddly colored and overpriced. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve seen parades from the one in Brazil, the people looking like brightly colored ants as they danced through the streets, wild and free. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

He even rearranged the shelves of the kitchen downstairs and removed the gaily colored crêpe streamers from the electric fans. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The general sent our colored unit up first to draw them out. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She beheld the billiards cues along the far wall, and the heavy colored balls stacked on the green felt table, and grinned. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I could still hear them humming at the graveside, even though we were miles away in a colored cemetery with crumbled markers and weeds. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Papa Andrew added the colored powder to our water when it tasted rancid. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

I see Charlie, standing in the center of the kitchen, playing with his spinner, bright colored beads and rings threaded on a string. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I guess here we didn’t have enough colored soldiers for a parade.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You ain’t heard? People say the police is lookin for a colored man what killed that white boy in the schoolyard.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was made from a piece of brilliantly colored cotton cloth. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw wheels of ribbon and wrapping paper, stacks of colored construction paper, cardboard boxes of newspaper clippings, watercolors and cans of paint, a yellow stack of phone books. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

I looked out the window and the man walked fast-fast to a colored woman who was standing in the station door. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

The branches are draped with colored lights, but the decorations are still in the attic. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The history of colored people in South Africa is, in this respect, worse than the history of black people in South Africa. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Their span was three times their length, each wing a delicate fan of translucent skin, gorgeously colored, stretched taut between long thin bones. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“I mean colored cooks know white people don’t want them using their dishes and things. That’s why they all drink out of jars and eat out of old plates or pie pans.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

When Lander arrived—the most dignified and eloquent colored man any of them had seen—the discussions adopted a more local character. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Today I work in colored pencil, but I hold them so hard and press so powerfully, the pencils keep breaking. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t we ask the colored lady for some grits? I think—” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I sketched them in pencil and then colored them using every color in my crayon box. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Anytime the cops asked me questions I started speaking in broken Afrikaans with a thick colored accent. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“June—you wouldn’t catch her keeping house for white people. She went to work at a colored funeral home, dressing the bodies and doing their hair.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Laura loved to look at the lamp, with its glass chimney so clean and sparkling, its yellow flame burning so steadily, and its bowl of clear kerosene colored red by the bits of flannel. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bronwyn acted as den mother, rounding us up every time one of us strayed to get a closer look at a stall of brightly colored pinwheels or steaming boiled candy. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

September come and a church in Birmingham blows up into a million pieces, with four little colored girls inside. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Jam opened her eyes, and colored spots hovered in the air before her. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Tree-ear did not believe that Kang was painting his pieces—but what else could one do with small amounts of colored slip? A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Black kids, white kids, Indian kids, colored kids. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Its beak is dingy, horn- colored, like old toenails. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Only that a hard honey- colored shoulder had a semicircle of teethmarks on it. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

From each dome rose a needlelike spire, all of them snapping with swallowtail flags and interconnected by ribbons across which children ran laughing, clad in cloaks of colored feathers. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

In the boiling water the frankfurters swished and lashed like artificially colored and magnified paramecia. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was mixed but not colored—colored by complexion but not by culture. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He’d upset the balance of everything by asking out the only colored girl in school. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Wind and time have worn and smoothed the gate's tiered placards that barely show the old carvings of the five colored clouds of heaven. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

She wiped her eyes with both hands before picking up the blue colored pencil and rolling it between her fingers. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Katherine is passing light; a body likely wouldn’t even know that she was colored unless someone told them. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

My heart racing, I drive fast on the paved town roads, heading for the colored part of town. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

They had been decent to me, but I knew I was the only colored and I didn’t want anyone to judge badly of me. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The colored couldn’t play in the big leagues, but if they could I know Pete would of made it. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everything he did for the rest of the day was colored with a bitter dye, and he thought, more than once, about walking down to the bar to see what was going on. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

You would know them anywhere after a few looks at them at the Botanical Gardens and in colored flower books. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each evening the sun colored the buildings ochre and lit the motes of dust raised by the breeze until the air itself became a soft orange veil. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

No one mentions James Meredith, the colored student they let in. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

But the colored part a town, we one big anthill, surrounded by state land that ain’t for sale. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

It’s like a hot water bottle plopped on top of the colored neighborhood, making it ten degrees worse than the rest of Jackson. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“His parents could totally afford to send him to private school. But fifty percent of the colored students haven’t been to school at all.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“More to the point,” said the tallest of the group—the one with the most expensive frock coat, the most expensive top hat, and the most expensive shiny shoes—“one less colored on Malaga Island.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

“You wait there. It boards in twenty minutes. The colored car is at the back.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A couple months ago I’d been arguing over food court bourbon chicken that colored denim was a sin. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

As I brushed my teeth, I wondered how I’d feel if a colored girl were sent to my school. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The farm and the adjacent ones operated by colored interests were too big, too prosperous. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

But cut open too early or after two days, nothing but colored watery material comes flowing out.” The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The other states of the cotton empire absorbed the stock; Florida and Louisiana, in their explosive growth, were particularly famished for colored hands, especially the seasoned variety. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The Mike Douglas Show wasn’t the only place to find colored people on television. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I open my eyes, and it’s a piece of paper folded into a bow tie and colored in with a gold crayon. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

In the bus station lobby, I looked for signs indicating a colored waiting room, but saw none. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Can a girl be white one day and colored the next? The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mom’s paintings have always been brightly colored and beautiful, but something about applying all that color to her intricate, almost anatomical drawings of insects makes them something more than beautiful. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

And colored folk was walking ’long on their merry way to who knowed where. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

A bit of saliva colored the leaves at my feet, so I covered them with dirt. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

Stuart in a christening gown, held by a colored woman in white uniform. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

She recognized his evening clothes from the stacks in the colored emporium, but he wore them with more confidence than other men his age who hailed from plantations. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“That the women make cuts and bums on their faces and bodies to make pictures on them. Then they put colored dyes in the cuts and bums. They think it makes them look beautiful.” Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Girls moved around in football huddles, the way they always do, wearing lots of makeup and spaghetti-strap tops and brightly colored pants and shoes that looked like torture devices. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Lelia decorates the studio with colored butcher paper and animal posters and cutouts her students make. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cross Street was paved, lined with small pretty white houses and many colored shutters. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

There had been a colored girl in one of Judy’s classes last year at Central High School, the best high school in all of Arkansas. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I tell him about the colored maids filing past me after the prayer meeting, I feel a swell of pride over what we’ve done. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

This was not scourging some colored boy in the twilight or breaking up a slave festival for amusement. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The animosity I felt from the colored people I encountered growing up was one of the hardest things I’ve ever had to deal with. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“You really think there’ll be enough colored people—I mean nice colored people—in this city to live there?” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Next stop is the art room, where we divvy up these forty-two precious names and transfer them onto strips of colored paper, to be formed into loops and added to the chain. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Up ahead, a little colored boy in overalls watches me, wide-eyed, gripping a red ball. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

They kneeled over the board, and Muti threw the wooden dice and moved his colored bean with a sly smile on his face. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

He refused and went to the end of the colored portion of the line. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The teacher was startled but not unbelieving, for she had long ago given up trying to fathom the ways of the colored people in town. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Nobody cares about some colored girl winning a tennis match in England,” Marion said. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Yossarian bent forward to peer and saw a strangely colored stain seeping through the coveralls just above the armhole of Snowden’s flak suit. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

I enjoy the company of brightly colored birds. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“It is named for a colored man, however.” Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

Being a porter was one of the best jobs that colored folk could hope to get. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s right. One of them. They never was too crazy ’bout colored folks. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I am colored. Do you have a problem with that?” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well”—I took a deep breath—“I’d like to write this showing the point of view of the help. The colored women down here.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The colored light shimmered and shone on the wings’ surface and I flexed them joyfully, delighted with how the colors spread and played upon their surfaces. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

A grizzled old colored man stirs a big pot of something over a fire, and a couple of small, dark-skinned boys run to and fro as the old man barks out orders. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Ain’t but four people on there, two colored, two white, all mens. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

From where we stood we could just make out what were clearly the large, brightly lit and colored signs of roadside restaurants and big motels. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

You know colored people and Indians mixed a lot, but sometimes, well, some Indians didn’t like it—the marrying, I mean. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

We tried on so many of the brightly colored glass bangles that the owner complained, “You are keeping my customers away. Come back when you have some money.” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Inside there was only an enormous, transparent block with infinite internal needles in which the light of the sunset was broken up into colored stars. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I spec we about to get a shower. “... government knows best and if Skeeter thinks she’s going to get away with this colored non—” “Mama! Mama! Look at me!” holler Heather from the pool. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

A tinge of pink and purple colored the sky above the woods, and he felt suddenly sobered by the cold. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The new hospital was specially equipped, and Dr. Stevens himself had studied under the man who pioneered the technique, which had been perfected on the colored inmates of a Boston asylum. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Mats cover the cracked concrete floor, making a crazy quilt of colored rattan and woven plastic. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

T. Ray did not think colored women were smart. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few were light colored and appeared to be sandstone, an ocher yellow sandstone with a powdery fine texture he had never seen before. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

When she came out a few moments later, she had two packages wrapped up in the brightly colored comic section of the newspaper. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

She buys mismatched teaspoons, percale pillowcases, colored candles, soaps on ropes. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

This “counterproof,” with its softer ink outlines, was then colored by hand. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

There was something nice about realizing that there really was nothing wrong with being colored, despite what some folks thought. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

In the colored section, we could smell the smoke and the air was thick. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

It stood to one side of the front door, a Disco-Matic made of chrome, plastic, and colored glass. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

But Mama said the blues makes you feel the hurt deep down in your gut and the blues is about how much colored folks go through in life and love. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

Ms. Udell returned her attention to her class and waved a stack of colored index cards. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

The pumice rock minefield was dotted with stubborn weeds armed with sharp thistles, which poked up through the cheap layer of thin black plastic under the brick- colored lava bits. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

I noticed that there was both white and colored coming out of some of the same shops and even from the same restaurants. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He has several of these wooden guns, and daggers and swords also, with blood colored onto the blades with red pencils. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the dark, he said, colored miscreants lurked to violate the citizens’ wives and daughters. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Alice thought, No. It wasn’t the War and the disgruntled veterans; it wasn’t the droves and droves of colored people flocking to paychecks and streets full of themselves. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

A curtain separated the colored car from the white, and only the porters and the conductor could pass through. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

“And then they dropped him off at the colored hospital. That’s what the nurse told me, who was standing outside. They rolled him off the truck bed and the white men drove away.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I had heard tell that the sheriff ran with t he Klan at night when they would come through the colored section or out to the colored farms. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jennifer had asked me once, “How come colored women always put their hands on their hips?” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

With her bosoms hanging out and her hair colored Gold Nugget. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

A million colored dust-motes danced and swirled as the two mice trod the ancient stone floor. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Waves, colored zigzags, a garble of sound: it’s the Montreal satellite station, being blocked. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

All around it are patterned and colored paper, maps, and cut-up fabric. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The other students uttered the most horrible things about the colored population of Boston, about their smell, their intellectual deficiencies, their primitive drives. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

That moment was as close as we could ever get to all of us just being people—not colored and white people, just people. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He moves across the room to the map with the colored pins, his limp more pronounced than usual. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Lit windows, smoke from the chimneys, bunches of brightly colored corn affixed to the front doors as decoration for the upcoming Harvest Festival. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

They wore beautifully colored woollen coverings over their humps, and headstalls with tassels of dark red, green, and blue trailing almost to the ground. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Then from bits of colored paper she cut dresses and hats, ribbons and laces, so that Laura and Mary could dress their dolls beautifully. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

A canary- colored goldfinch is perched on the railing, looking at the empty bird feeder dangling above it. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

“And I don’t care what the rules are. I am not about to let word get out that we lost to a bunch of colored boys.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Donleavy was running for election, and assured our parents that if he won we could count on having the only colored paved playing field in that part of Arkansas. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

A colored woman in a white uniform is attached to her side. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Hester was no beauty; she was about as plain and scrawny as a hare could be; but her eyes were marvelously colored, gold-hazel flecked with rays of deepest peat brown and forest green. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like the “coloreds” in the years following emancipation, criminals today are deemed a characterless and purposeless people, deserving of our collective scorn and contempt. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I stop in front of a group of boxes with brightly colored dyes and pick up a pink one. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

The first batch came out pretty enough, but I realized I could’ve used a toothpick to swirl the colored batter a little so the finished cupcakes looked more tie-dyed. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

After the longest time, a colored man in a white coat covered with smears and specks of blood walked into the park and come right to us. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

“And what’s Mister Johnny gone do if he come home and find a colored woman up in his kitchen?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

An elderly black man summed up this attitude when he said of the Mutual’s resplendent building: “I bet a colored man can’t even get a loan up there anymore.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

A plane crossed the horizon, colored lights blinking. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know if they be serving colored here and was just trying to figure that out. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Eden Park I was the only mixed kid in the colored area. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

It was enough that he was the oldest colored man they had ever met, that he had survived every torment big and small white men had concocted and implemented. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

And between the good and the bad there were others, moments colored not so much by fear or danger but by tiny heartbreaks, thimblefuls of betrayal. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Yet when his classmates put their blades to a colored cadaver, they did more for the cause of colored advancement than the most high-minded abolitionist. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

How Miss Skeeter gone explain a colored woman calling her up on the telephone? The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Grandpa didn’t have electricity or running water and didn’t believe in hiring colored help. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Its similar to what we’ve seen in the South with the Negro, where the plague often fails to spread widely within populations of colored peoples.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The sheriff was in front of a group of colored that was pressed into the crowd. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like the night she tried to tell them not to keep the little boy for Sis any more; by then she was even running around with colored men, and she was always drunk. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Even though women had the vote, there were still many who believed a woman’s place was in the home, and for a colored woman with few options, that meant taking care of someone else’s home. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Methodically, as Poppy scratched and scribbled beside her, Lina colored in the space above the buildings, her pencil moving back and forth in short lines, until the entire sky was blue. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It could be there still, in somebody’s backyard, but the cotton fields and the colored neighborhood around , them were churned up and pressed down. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Likely they wouldn’t of put Loomis in the paper, him being colored, but I meant to ask Toddy to try. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

It was from her stained hands that the colored threads used for rare ornamentation were produced. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seems to me those “enlightened men” worry more about keeping the mayor happy than the plight of colored folks. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The Durham Commercial Club celebrated its hometown in 1913 with this forty-by-fifty-foot sign, its confident message spelled out in colored electric lights. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Tolan was the only colored boy to get golds in track!” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

For instance, the Q, A and Z, all of which are hit with the little finger of the left hand, were colored blue to match the blue little finger. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Children laughed and chased each other, decked in so many colored necklaces they could barely walk. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“How come colored people act like that? Why are they always fighting and burning up stuff?” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

I figure she looking at where she gone build me my new colored bathroom. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

She bought a bunch of mason jars at the craft store and wrapped them with colored paper, then arranged flowers in each jar. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“They had one water fountain for whites, and one for us. I used to think, What’s the difference between colored water and white water? What does white water taste like?” Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meg was absent-minded, shy, and silent, started when the bell rang, and colored when John’s name was mentioned. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

He told him that he had heard that our mark was the only white man colored people could trust. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

All colored people will organize under the direction of these picked leaders and prepare for revolt. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I can report this because I have a map before me, but what I remember has no reference to the numbers and colored lines and squiggles. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

To cover it he waded a little farther, pushed aside the last fringe of papyrus, pretending to study the bright colored sails that dotted the river. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

The fuzzy cloud comes and goes, and now he looks forward to the pleasure of the brightly colored pictures in the comic book that he has gone through thirty, forty times. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

All Barry had were the colored pencils Mom and Dad had bought him for his last birthday. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

There are a few colored folks mixed in with the group, but they mostly look white, scarily nondescript and similar in that way shamblers get when they’ve been not-dead for a while. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

A few times, I’d gone down through the shades of colored town with my father. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The young woman looked at her coldly and replied, “We don’t take colored.” The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

“When the census came around, my mama told them to put ‘colored’ for our household. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Once upon a time white folks had owned colored folks and forced them to work until their fingers bled. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Scrubbed from top to bottom with something sudsy and bright colored, like sun yellow that smelled like rotten lemon, or mutant green that smelled like if every flower in the world sneezed. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Which one was he more: Chinese or colored? One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were hedges that, in the summer, the gardener shaped like animals, and a swimming pool with emerald- colored tiles. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I think of all the colored people’s lives that were here one minute, gone the next. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He took it, tossed it up for a quick catch to see if it came apart, and then he began twisting and turning the colored cubes. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

“Oh, thank you, thank you, thank you. Who are you? How does a colored guy know Tsonga? Where are you from?” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I’d never really thought about how close we lived to the colored part of town. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dry-mouthed with excitement and apprehension, he went to the colored side of the counter to buy his ticket. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Far below, down a side of the mountain I had never laid eyes on, the dry Tibetan plateau stretched to the horizon as a boundless expanse of dun- colored earth. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

In her room, Mabel had posters of her favorite singers plastered across the walls, along with piles of brightly colored yarn everywhere, since she was in a bracelet-making phase. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

They were escorted across the entry hall, where a mosaic of colored glass depicted the Doom of Valyria. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The Greek historian Herodotus described it as a stack of eight stepped towers, with gates of solid brass and 120 lions in brightly colored, glazed tiles leading to it. The Annotated Mona Lisa 1992-06-01T00:00:00Z

One big meriny colored woman was so ugly till it was worth five dollars for her not to come in, so he gave it to her. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Rows of colored liquid—green, red, blue—lined the shelf beneath a great mirror. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

The sheets showed brightly colored kites flying in indigo blue skies. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Back then and for many years, all the porters were colored. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Wonder Dome had been magically transformed into a brilliant blue sky filled with brightly colored hot-air balloons. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Even the five-and-dime, which isn't segregated now but where a woman is paid, my grandmother says, to follow colored people around in case they try to steal something. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Elijah Lander’s father was a rich white lawyer in Boston who lived openly with his colored wife. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

But Pilate did not want a steady job in a town where a lot of colored people lived. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a colored man, name of Moses. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the middle of the gateway stood a tall man dressed, down to his bare feet, in a robe colored like autumn leaves, leaning on a straight staff. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

“I can’t tell you that. But in a few years—five or ten—a whole lot of coloreds will have enough to afford it. A whole lot. Take my word for it.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stores with brightly colored awnings lined the side opposite us, and the houses on our side got smaller as we walked. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

We drawed some looks from colored folk and even some white ones that made the hair on my neck stand up. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

It was technically illegal to bury anyone on company property, but the colored people had a cemetery somewhere up Snakeroot Hollow. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, other coloreds would step in and warn a traveler. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And judging by the way he was skinning and grinning and frolicking ’round this one colored girl, he wasn’t holting on for the ride, he was getting dragged foots-first by anything the girl done. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Weighing it against the alternative, that I planned to ask a colored woman for help, saying she’d already agreed to it seemed infinitely more attractive. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

A colored man driving a beat-up Chevy truck full of cantaloupes had mercy on us. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maisie was spoiled, doubtless, but there were worse things than being spoiled if you were colored. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Wasn’t I that girl who came to the jail last week to see one of the colored boys? The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nowadays, for a nickel, I could find sanctuary in a colored rest room. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cora had savored this fact in a multitude of ways over the months, but the provision for colored education was among the most nourishing. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Then she get in her car and go do whatever it is she do when she ain’t nervous bout a couple a colored mens hanging round her house. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“Well, if you ain’t noticed, she’s colored,” said Rosaleen, and I could tell it was having an effect on her by the way she kept gazing at it with her mouth parted. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The kind colored folks tell on themselves when the rain doesn’t come, or comes for weeks, and they’re looking for a little comfort somehow. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

But I knew Papa h; d warned me that the colored always paid a price when the races got too close to each other. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes blacks were promoted to colored, and sometimes coloreds were demoted to black. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Now, my policy is I don’t treat colored people.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

A sketchpad and a box of colored pencils appeared in his palm. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

She’d spent time in Louisiana and Virginia, where her father opened colored institutions of learning, and California. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“All the colored folk on both sides of the creek knew. No one bothered to tell me.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

The need for trade schools, colored medical schools. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“About as good as you’ll find anywhere. The last colored man who worked for us stayed ten years.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

She was wearing boots which looked like army boots and there were 5 bracelets made out of a silver- colored metal on her wrist and they made a jangling noise. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Without saying it, Elzenia meant, “Leave it where their anger is at the horse. One word could turn that kind of anger on a colored person.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had a maid to do that, probably a colored woman who... The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bus station, normally bustling with the chaos of brightly colored buses and hundreds of travelers, was deserted, and weeds were growing up through cracks in the paving. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Who was winning—the white people’s team or the colored people’s team? The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perched on a crooked branch, a brightly colored parrot stretches its wings. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

‘And that is the various reason why I’m a whole lot more fortunate than most colored girls,’ Portia said as she opened the door. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Poor little colored boy lost his mother. What a shame.” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Pretty soon, even though we was white and colored, we got to talking like we was just people. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Valentine’s kitchen table started the culture of debate on the farm, when Valentine and his friends—and later, visiting scholars and noted abolitionists—stayed up past midnight arguing over the colored question. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Then with a planing tool, he carefully smoothed away the surface of the design so that the colored clay was completely level with the body of the vase itself. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Heaps of skeins of beautiful threads colored like the rainbow lay beside each, and threads of gold and silver too. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Up north, the gargantuan metropolis, the liberty movement, and the ingenuity of the colored community all converged to portray the true scale of the hunt. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I'd been certain, even though I knew I had the disadvantage of being colored—being black. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

It was colored bricks, first, and I fell down because they were coming too quick. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

When, as a young boy, I had been asked what I wanted to be when I grew up, I had never answered “black” or “Negro” or even “colored.” Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Out of desperation I’d included some of my old Biology drawings, in hard lead pencil with colored shadings. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I look at slides, planaria worms in section with their triangular heads and cross- eyes, bacteria colored with vivid dyes, hot pinks, violent purples, radiant blues. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Only half of the colored residents worked on Saturdays, so Friday night was busy. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

They’d charge us with integration violation—I read about it in the paper all the time—they despise the whites that meet with the coloreds to help with the civil rights movement. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Was it so insulting for Glenn to lose to a colored player that he would rather fake an injury? The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

She had no fear for Pantalaimon: the room was somber colored, and he could always creep under a chair. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“A library for colored folks? It’s a library for Chicago residents,” she says, serious. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

Instead, we wore massive silver rings with brightly colored jewels and plenty of marcasite. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

It’s only been a few weeks since Katherine went from being just another colored girl at Miss Preston’s to a white lady, and the change in her is obvious as we eat. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Their veins and arteries have been injected with colored rubber, blue for the veins, purple for the arteries, so we can see that their blood systems are connected. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, if I didn’t know it, the woman who raised him was a colored woman and he still sees her to this day. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Half a dozen colored people are gathered in the front yard of the house, holding trays and bags. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“Was it a colored orphanage or a white one?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I used colored pencils and copied the picture off a cheap hologram bookmark. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Amari opened his drawing pad and flipped through the pages until he came to a brightly colored picture. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Wouldn’t have been any trouble, Mr. Hurd. One less colored in the world.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

It was a very old, terrific record that this colored girl singer, Estelle Fletcher, made about twenty years ago. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

“I had an English friend at college who really went for colored girls.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

There was a colored woman named Queen who lived in our block of flats. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Besides that, as bad as the colored were treated, some folks got real mad when a colored left and moved up north. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Far down the street an old tin Ford was choking along, approaching, a last load of colored people in it. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mostly everyone was colored, and the few white folks who were gathered in amongst the group seemed oblivious to the differences of their skin. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“They’ll call you a colored man when you grow up,” she said. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was...well, I was raised by a colored woman. I’ve seen how simple it can be and—and how complex it can be between the families and the help.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

She rode the trolley with her mother sullenly, her eyes hooded as she watched the crying girl ghost next to the chatty old colored woman. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Then we’d get silly and say it every kind of colored way we knew how. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

A portion of the colored were runaways, although there was no telling how many, for obvious reasons. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

She would fix her hair, cover it with a flimsy net, put on a clean white cannery worker’s dress, and stick a brightly colored handkerchief in the lapel pocket. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Minutes turned into hours and the pinks and greens of sunset colored the frozen prairie. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The officer in charge shall not bury any colored persons upon ground usedfor the burial of white persons. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Mingo would never be more than an opportunist, harassing the farm with his own notions about colored advancement. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Under the town walls, parchment lanterns had been lit above the stalls, throwing pools of colored light upon the cobbled path. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The giant circular targets were composed of five colored rings—yellow marking the center, with only a tiny black dot to mark the bull’s-eye. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The students are each given several sheets of newsprint and thick colored crayons whose labels have been peeled. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The next day a colored baby was bom inside Mercy for the first time. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Enough people were out and about, black, white, and colored, going to and from work, that we could get lost in the crowd. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The show was gaudy with colored lights in the evening. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

At one end of it a colored poster, too large for indoor display, had been tacked to the wall. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Art supplies sat in organized piles on tall shelves—paint, colored pencils, construction paper, glue, and a myriad of other things he didn’t recognize but couldn’t wait to inspect. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

“But he refused to share it with a colored lady.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Family friends interceded to make him the first colored student at one of the prestigious white colleges. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Renzo stood in the middle of the shop, underneath the chandelier with the colored glass petals, and looked around. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

The inside covers had fancy colored paper on them. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

There are two vending machines snug against the wall, both of them illuminated in a fluorescent radiance, shiny with their rows of brightly colored snack wrappers and bottled sodas. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“I found this in the library. A book of poetry by a man named Langston Hughes. He’s a colored poet.” Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

None of them spoke about Mrs. Caruthers killing her son’s first fiancée, a woman who had been her personal maid and a colored girl light enough to pass as white. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

My stepfather had kept his ’68 Pontiac Catalina, gold- colored with blue interior, immaculate. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

One stack of papers was a copyedited manuscript—basically a printout from a computer file that had been marked up in colored pencil with a bunch of edit marks. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

When I was a kid, Mom used to hide colored eggs for me all over the house. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Then he started work on the sow and paunched her, lugging out the hot bags of colored guts, pushing them into a pile on the rock while the others watched him. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

And the school itself had huge windows and brightly colored walls. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

And I colored all the cars in with red paint to make it a Super Super Good Day for Mother. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She was constantly surprised by the number of colored people that she saw, by their speech, and the fine clothes that they wore. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Petrelli put flashing colored lights around his door and a menorah with orange light bulbs on his window shelf. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Nothing like the colored Piggly Wiggly with sawdust on the floor. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

And sure ’nough, it was a bunch of students all dressed up from head to toe, both colored and white. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

And I say polite as I can, “Not a school full a just white people. But where the colored and the white folks is together.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I sometimes do this too, wallowing among the pages of colored paper, surrounded by the fuggy scent of boys. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Dressed in mismatched, gaudy clothes and chimney-pot hats, they molded their voices to exaggerate colored speech; this seemed to be the source of the humor. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Aunt Rose’s house was in a nicer part of the city, the place where respectable colored folks lived, as the elderly woman liked to brag. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Old men blew colored smoke through long painted flutes, etching the air with soundless music. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The cream- colored trousers marking with a mere seam the place where the mystery curled. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The mold-eaten carpet under her feet had once been gorgeously colored, and whorls of gold could still be seen in the fabric, glinting broken amidst the faded grey and mottled green. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“That’s good that they have a colored section in every restaurant,” I said. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A lot of colored thought of Kennedy as a real friend and were sad to see him cut short. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

At least once a fortnight a corps of caterers came down with several hundred feet of canvas and enough colored lights to make a Christmas tree of Gatsby's enormous garden. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Why did white people sit in the front of city buses and black people sit in the back, behind the signs that said “coloreds”? I didn’t know. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

There would be drinking fountains, colored and white. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I remember that contest, but I don’t remember hearing nothing ’bout no colored person winning it.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

He flew on to London, and reporters of the British Broadcasting Corporation took him on an interviewing tour in Smethwick, a town near Birmingham with a large colored population. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

One was titled Oceans of the World, and the other had brightly colored fish on the cover. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

For the colored folk, times was already tough and it wasn’t so different than before. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Then why is she living with us colored folks?” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the second time she reminded Cora of the lessons in reading and writing, which were optional but recommended, in keeping with their mission of colored uplift, especially for those with aptitude. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

And colored people didn’t just get promoted to white. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The worst way to insult a colored person was to infer that they were in some way black. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Usually the track runs right through the colored section of a town, but I couldn’t be sure. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as I see Jason’s mother’s van drive into the parking lot, I unload my backpack: word cards, sketchbook, colored pencils, CD player, and headphones. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes this fellow’s music was like little colored pieces of crystal candy, and other times it was the softest, saddest thing she had ever imagined about. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Did she mean that she liked colored people? Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Your aunt Dorothy lives in Birmingham. There’s a school for coloreds there. It's good too, according to your aunt.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Two nights ago, as soon as I crossed over the colored bridge, I was stopped by a policeman. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I crept back to the colored side and hunched over the water fountain as the girl in white relayed all this to him, using a lot of hand gestures. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Drones and their guests were bused in two gaily colored buses. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

So colored people thought that I thought I was better than them. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

One of the most sinister things about apartheid was that it taught colored people that it was black people who were holding them back. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“You still friends with that colored girl?” asked Red at a stoplight. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the other colored women said, “Child, we’s so happy for you!” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

She had felt it in Looper’s shop as she hovered over the colored pencils. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Aunty Ifeoma laughed and touched the flower, colored a deep shade of purple that was almost blue. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

He was colored too and just a bit shorter than Pap but a whole lot broader. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Each one adds her own flair to it—a brooch, a colored sash—but underneath we all know it's The Dress. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

And beet sugar colored by new processes was now outselling cane sugar from the Caribbean. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

They smelled sweet and tangy, and the dish was colored rich gold in places and olive green in others. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

This picture hurt the big Greek’s feelings, and he refused to be reconciled until Singer had made his face very young and handsome and colored his hair bright yellow and his eyes china blue. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

At least in the colored neighborhood, I don’t remember no high-rises. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could imagine Mrs. Walton glued to the television—for sure it’s a colored one and probably big too. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

She knew from sermons and editorials that it wasn’t real music—just colored folks’ stuff: harmful, certainly; embarrassing, of course; but not real, not serious. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were about the size of deer or antelopes, and similarly colored, but what made her stop still and rub her eyes was the arrangement of their legs. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Do the white people of Leeds know that colored children from downtown Birmingham are splashing around in their swimming pool? While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I colored us in with pencils—the brown of Abby’s skin, the pink of my cheeks, the dark red of my hair. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

“But colored people need shoes and hammers and nice dresses. They spend their money too.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“If I were a colored woman, I should be willing to march with the other women of my race,” one Illinois suffragist said. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

I could see that Mrs. Odom’s rutabaga trick with Howard’s brother Cotton wasn’t working too good because there were lots of drawings with colored markers along the bottom of the walls. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

“I told Mrs. Singer I wasn’t Jewish, that I was colored.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

There was a pack of colored markers by his elbow. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

He even start writing his own book, bout being a colored man living and working in Mississippi. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

His whole body is pressed against the window as if he’s trying to make himself a part of the landscape of colored paper loops inside. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

I wait for her to catch the irony of this, that she’ll send money to colored people overseas, but not across town. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I figured that if I was in jail people were going to assume I was the kind of colored person who ends up in jail, a violent criminal. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

She was constructing model molecules by connecting colored gumdrops that were supposed to represent atoms, but she got distracted pretending the gumdrops were the Beiderman’s eyes and she was stabbing them with the toothpicks. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I look out the window at the colored hospital go by, the fruit stand. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

It reminded me of Miss Taylor pulling me into the hall to tell me Liz was colored. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Half of your donation goes to civil rights for colored people in the South. So they can get their rights. They're going to be really happy with your contribution.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

The revolts were quashed, but the immensity of the colored population remained. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

This was bigger than Say it loud, I’m Black and I’m proud If one of us said “colored,” we all said “colored.” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cheddar is under the speckles of colored light from the broken glass on the rooftop. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

An old colored woman was walking across a pasture towards us. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“Yes, sir, Mr. Blake, that be fine,” Papa responded in the tone that the colored talked to a white man. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here is the translation: I am completely confused what a white girl like you is doing staying in a colored house. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

But after Mr. Evers got shot a week ago, lot a colored folks is frustrated in this town. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“It’s a free country. White people can have colored friends.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

A series of doors were punctuated by brightly colored abstract paintings. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

He spent hours applying pomantum wax, padding, and lengths of brick- colored hair to fashion a high roll on Madam’s head. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were of course all sorts of colored things in the bedroom; the colored counterpane on the bed, the wallpaper, the sunlight from the window, and Mother’s pretty, pale blue dressing jacket. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Then we stopped by a shack where brightly colored sweets were packed tight in glass jars, and you chose your favorite color—green. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Then in 1918, when colored men were being drafted, a few gave their address at the recruitment office as Doctor Street. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ocean perked up a little from the reflection of these colored slivers in the sky. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

On a thick wooden table by the window, piles of colored yarns lay ready for sorting. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But all too soon Dustfinger told her to turn off along a minor road leading away from the coast, away from the sea and the brightly colored houses, and into the dark. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

She was looking at me closely and with hope—as if I could clear things up for her, tell her the inside story as to why colored people were acting up in this way. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

“You stupid, man. Real stupid. Ain’t no law for no colored man except the one sends him to the chair,” said Guitar. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can tell being away for a whole week from a job that don’t mind firing colored workers is on his mind. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

In a sense I have always felt something of a kinship with the colored race because its position is the same as mine: we both exist outside the inner realm of American society. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I had enough pennies, I would scoop them up and run to the grocer’s to buy my favorite colored icy pops. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

On the lake a hundred or more ships, yachts, and launches lay at anchor with colored lights on their bows and booms and strung along their rigging. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“No, he wasn’t colored. He was scum. Some Yankee from New York, the kind you see on the TV with the long hair and the peace signs.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I colored in his hair, drew on ears and lips, but the nose got special attention—it was giant, pendulous, overpowering. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t understand why half of Little Rock was screaming over a few colored kids. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I step onto the front porch and slide the umbrella into my backpack with my sketchbook and colored pencils. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Teenie tucked a colored piece of fabric into the packet and closed it tightly with a drawstring. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dell was surprised to see that, instead of complaining, the hostile teenager actually looked enthused to employ colored pencils to fill in blank spaces. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

She quiets her voice, says, “Well, remember how I slipped up and told her about Treelore writing colored things down?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“Can’t no one beat the Brown Bomber,” folks laugh as they pass, like Joe Louis is fighting for all us colored folks. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

Its rider, a helmeted police officer with an unpleasant frown, growled at Marietta: “What business have you with these colored children in the city tonight?” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

They had no idea what real colored gangsters were like. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Sugar Ray Robinson would drive slowly through the neighborhood in his brightly colored Cadillac and yell at us if we didn’t get out of the street fast enough. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

They had insinuated themselves into the colored community there, Sam said, but a slave catcher nosed around and it was time to flee. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Looking now at the magnificent robe, she knew that her sparse collection, a few leftover colored threads that her mother had allowed her to use for her own, was not adequate at all. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Selena had rung her apartment bell, the girls were admitted—or rather, the door was drawn in and left ajar—by a colored maid with whom Selena didn’t seem to be on speaking terms. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

The bleeding man turned toward the direction of the scream and looked at the colored girl long enough for Macon to pull out his knife and bring it down on the old man’s back. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whatever it is will appear, even later, in colored plates, in books; like the work of Leonardo da Vinci, whose studies of hands and feet and hair and dead people I pore over. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was writing a book on how colored people live and he says somebody stole all the facts he’d found. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Hidden in latex, molded to the shape of their earlobes, and colored to match their precise skin tones, the earpieces were completely invisible. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Pink and silver boxes, colored pantyhose, brassieres with lace, silk scarves? The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

On them were pictures of Chinese ladies and gentlemen, dressed in colored gowns and robes, walking on little bridges over a calm blue lake. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

They aren't finished—they need to be colored in, and decorated, and turned into something much prettier than what they are. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He saw everything in front of him as though it was a very highly colored dream. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

She could describe him only as “quite a dark colored boy” with “curly type hair.” Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

After graduating with a degree in mathematics, Big Dub moved North, where he spent the next few years teaching at small colored schools in Virginia and Maryland. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

She rejected the proposal with: “They don’t accept colored people on the streetcars.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few minutes earlier she’d jumped out of the car, pulled her jacket over her head, and scurried into the hospital, past the “colored” bathroom, the only one she was allowed to use. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

How he came to command the locomotive was a story, but now was not the time for the unlikely histories of colored boys. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

White men eat you up, but sometimes colored folk eat you up, too. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Captain Nips eased the coach between a seller of live fowl and a juggler tossing colored balls into the bright noonday air. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

I saw Shoeshine Peavy, a young colored boy. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“My father was a God-fearing colored man. He didn’t turn into a crow like some demon. No sir!” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

“I told her, let the regular old history books tell it. White people been representing colored opinions since the beginning a time.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

She’s always kept tabs on all the colored help and their situations—where they live, if they’re married, how many children they have. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

If the words and the tone wasn’t mean—“Sorry, son, but we can’t serve colored”—we would ask the next question. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He went to the colored school over on the corner. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

The family looked Indian but dressed as foreigners did, the children in stiff, brightly colored clothing and caps with translucent visors. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“I had acquaintances, but just a few. There were lots of colored kids at my old school but I just wasn’t one of the popular ones. Not many people liked me.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

The townspeople looked at the colored girl laying there collapsed on the ground and stepped over her into the bakery. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

New York was a Free State, they argued, and any colored person became magically free once they stepped over the border. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

These things I know already, yet hearing them from colored mouths, it is as if I am hearing them for the first time. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Walking along Dryades, through the ghetto, I realized that every informed man with whom I had spoken, in the intimate freedom of the colored bond, had acknowledged a double problem for the Negro. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the workers were colored and the foreman for each crew was white. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everybody ignored us, but we knew we were annoying them big time just by being colored and living so close. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

I grinned when I saw that the driver was a colored man. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

All of them wore colored headbands, all carried short, rapier-like swords. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Big signs made with colored markers and printer paper taped together. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“She talking about Mister Holbrook running for office and how you supporting colored people and she say... she read something.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The dining car was closed to coloreds anyway, except, of course, for the waiters and the cooks back in the kitchen. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I grew older, I used kira-kira to describe everything I liked: the beautiful blue sky, puppies, kittens, butterflies, colored Kleenex. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“But those frames come with pictures of white people, and the outside child is not white. She’s colored.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

The bicycle pulled up before the porch, a seventeen- year-old colored boy on it, all arms and feet and long legs and round watermelon head. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was off before daybreak with a colored man named Larry. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ivy clapped her hands over her ears and colored the sounds in her head. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The old man colored the tiny icicles a light orange-brown by dripping a homemade tamarindo syrup all over my piragua. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Small children were wearing their best clothing, the girls with brightly colored ribbons in their hair. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Heaven was crystal lit with white angel Fire, colored peach at the edges. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a booth that sold bangles and another with bolts of brightly colored cloth for saris. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

A colored man wearing a butler’s uniform answered the door. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first was my mother in colored pencil, in her city house kitchen and her late-forties dress. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

On the rails, we was all one, but outside the yards, it was a world of white and colored. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Well, that rather colored things, as you can imagine. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“The colors appear in geometric shapes like spirals or balls or zigzags, that sort of thing. Or sometimes just a hazy patch of colored air.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

So the task of building a new society—with the many opportunities it embodied—fell to the coloreds as well. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

From here on in, everything I’ll tell you is colored by the subjective experience of being part of events. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I waited in the colored section, but it wouldn’t matter if I was allowed to sit on the white benches. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My daddy’s uncle kept a lot of the colored Lackses as slaves,” Ruby said. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Twinkling with colored lights, shiny balls, white doves, jeweled icicles, and miles of silver tinsel, it was topped by a brilliant star and skirted with gifts wrapped in finery. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

Ail the boxes feature broadly smiling women with the most perfectly colored and styled hair. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

She could be in Seventeen if they had colored people in that magazine. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

“His dislike for the colored man was very great.” The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Five long chains of brightly colored prayer flags* were then strung radially from the pole above our tents to protect the camp from harm. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

I peek into the bag at my feet: a paper cutter, white card stock, and a tin of forty-eight colored pencils, twelve more than the set I have. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I tell you, you make the best colored coffee in town.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Rishi colored a little, but she couldn’t tell if that was from the pace they were keeping or her question. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Piragua! sells shaved ices from a white cart filled with bottles and bottles of fruit-flavored syrup colored red and purple, orange and blue. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Preachers and sinners cried at revivals, and old Chickenfoot Creesie, a colored man, would cry when he came to our back door begging vittles for his children on a cold winter day. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“How can he be colored and not have rhythm?” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

The booklet is simply a list of laws stating what colored people can and cannot do, in an assortment of Southern states. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

As a policy, it is blind to those who are beyond its reach, the colored faces at the bottom of the well. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

A Trinity student spoke for the entire assemblage when he stood up and expressed the hope that there would soon be “complete understanding between white and colored races of the South.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

If we needed to stop, we found a gas station or a nice colored family to open their home to us. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I bet it’s those building blocks you used to play with. You know, the ones with the colored letters on them?” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Another man spoke up, “Yeah, and to them any colored man would do just fine.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a colored boy in South Africa, taught how to hate and how to hate himself. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“South Carolina has a much more enlightened attitude toward colored advancement than the rest of the south. You’ll be safe here until we can arrange the next leg of your trip. It might take time.” The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Bouncing melodies back and forth between them like brightly colored balls. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“The colored school. The official story is that I’ve been real sick and my grandmother’s been teaching me at home. But the truth is, everyone knows.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had never thought much about the “whites only” and “coloreds” signs posted above public facilities. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

She was the colored girl who’d dumped a bowl of soup on the boys who were picking on her. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

You could go downtown and see colored people working in the dime store behind die counters, even handling money with cash-register keys around their necks. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

He had a confused impression of colored hangings, of lamps and many faces. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Her mother, Ann, was a Powell, another educated, upwardly mobile colored family—and the same Powells who would two generations later produce Colin Powell. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Members of the Loyal League divided the petitions by state, sewed the pages together, and decorated the scrolls with colored ribbons. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

I turned it over and sure enough, there’s my baby white girl done colored herself black. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“You think I don’t know what your life is like just because I ain’t living it? I know what every colored woman in this country is doing.” Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Daddy had invited a colored pastor to come talk to his Bible study group at church. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I took a seat at my desk and surveyed the landscape—a small village of nail polish bottles, colored pencils, a rubber finger-puppet beast, and a hill of assorted notepads. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

When apartheid came, colored people defied easy categorization, so the system used them—quite brilliantly—to sow confusion, hatred, and mistrust. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“You say I’m a woman and colored. Ain’t that the same as being a man?” Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Fundraising envelopes were piled on the table, and next to them was a stack of colored tissue, like fragile cloth. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

My years with him and the rest of them, even good Jack, had somehow colored me funny, marked me. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Chris also took a big bouquet of her chrysanthemums, golden colored and as big as dinner plates. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s no place for a colored man—especially now with this Parker mess.” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Getting that cardboard box of brightly colored shirts, jackets, and trousers from Lucky had not helped his temper. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

At first she saw nothing but the brightly colored houses there, too. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Here and there a middle-aged or older woman wore a heavy, colorless kimono, and a couple of somewhat younger women wore colored ones. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“What’s their big interest in colored people all of a sudden? The young men gave out already?” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

One stack of papers was a copyedited manuscript—basically a printout from a computer file that had been marked up in colored pencil with a bunch of edit marks. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

When my car gets close to him, the little colored boy turns and scats behind a house a few down from Aibileen’s. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

There were three hundred wells, fifty thousand date trees, and innumerable colored tents spread among them. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was because he was the only colored ghost in the manor, and he was also the saddest. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Crooks said darkly, “Guys don’t come into a colored man’s room very much. Nobody been here but Slim. Slim an’ the boss.” Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Glad to know that he could send me over to the colored fountain, I nodded at him. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dressed in a stunning wine- colored traditional Afghan dress with long sleeves and gold trim­mings. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

This white girl, Lily, is staying with the colored Boatwright sisters. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She turns to our chapter, and I arrange my colored pencils on the couch next to me. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hilly raises her voice about three octaves higher when she talks to colored people. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Two night riders dragged a colored girl onstage. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Coming from a colored man, those words were nothing but good. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hand-drawn boxes circle the center of the board and hold brilliantly colored numbers, one through seventy. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

So, since my mom didn’t want to move to a black area and couldn’t afford to move to a white area, she decided to move to a colored area. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The women in the colored dormitories of South Carolina believed they knew liberty, but the surgeons’ knives cut them to prove otherwise. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

And the peculiar thing was, ’stead of attacking the colored ones, they was mingling right ’longside of ’em! The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

No colored barber shall serve as a barber to white women or girls. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“Did you hear about the colored boy this morning? One they beat with a tire iron for accidentally using the white bathroom?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

‘And none of this comes from white people. All from colored.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Last one up to Mom’s room is part colored,” she yelled. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The main speaker of the day was Chief Meligqili, the son of Dalindyebo, and after listening to him, my gaily colored dreams suddenly darkened. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes they scuttled along open turf, colored like a tapestry meadow with self-heal, centaury and tormentil. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Flashes of colored light gleam through gaps in the canvas to slide across our faces: young and old, dark and pale. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

There were signs letting us know that colored patients could only sit here. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The colored wing was having a busy morning when Cora gave her name to the receptionist. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

It’s not uncommon for a colored man and a colored woman to have a child that looks nothing like either parent. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Bailey said he saw a man, a colored man, whom nobody had delivered. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once a woman told me that colored flowers would seem more bright if you added a few white flowers to give the colors definition. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I touched Gran’s collection of fabrics, the shiny bright buttons, the colored threads. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

On each map, I colored over a different set of streets in the neighborhood with a highlighter. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

I’m happy to see one of them is Nessie, the colored girl who braided my hair and brought me water the day I was whipped. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The strong odor of the colored lacquers can be smelled out on the sidewalk, even with the door shut. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

The turquoise one with colored beads laced around the edges. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Because of that I was seen as a colored person who didn’t want to be colored. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

They all carried at least one M-18 colored smoke grenade—24 ounces. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just two months ago the white library started letting colored people in. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“Doll didn’t live in the Quarters with the other coloreds,” Miss Pat said. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of his best friends were colored people. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He played at the colored park, not too far from the spot where the cross had been burned when he was twelve. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

They sat in the rear seats behind the signs that said “coloreds.” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

A semicircle of little boys, their bodies streaked with colored clay, sharp sticks in their hands, were standing on the beach making no noise at all. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Gosh, that was a wonderful feeling—being colored and liking to fight. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Some books were sold like this, with uncolored prints, while others were colored by hand. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It was flame- colored, with bulging blood-red eyes. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had just sat down to the table when a rumble of colored men’s voices suddenly drifted in from the kitchen. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I remember how one day she showed up with bright pink tresses studded with blinking colored lights shaped like mice. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The seven other teams were decked out in brightly colored hoodies and sweatpants. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

“But when I got there,” the first voice continued, “the man said he had no paint, never had. Disagreeable man. All he had were a few colored pencils.” The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She leaned close in, but I heard her say to Mrs. Abbott, “I think that little colored girl got an extra prize.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

If the government kept records of all the colored arrivals, perhaps among the many names was that of her mother. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

There was a photograph of a colored man being attacked by a white mob in the middle of the street. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

They’re these spiny, brightly colored caterpillars the size of your finger. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

It was nice going down to the sea in the morning, and she liked the brightly colored houses, but all the same she wanted to leave. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

And although the hair of the first class of colored nurses was declared unseemly for the official Bellevue nurse’s cap, there are thirty-five of them now—all dedicated and superb in their profession. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time I could read, I learned I could use any things or places marked “coloreds,” and I could not use those things or places marked “whites only.” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, then, without a sound, looking like a colored shadow, the fox slipped from the hummock and was gone. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Can't you come up with something about colored girls? Don't they have a story?” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

‘I seen Lurie drop her ticket and I watched this here white lady pick it up. That the truth,’ a colored boy said. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

First, Linda Cruz made it clear that she was Spanish and not Mexican and she couldn't have colored people at her house either. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

So my mom moved me around the world as a colored child. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

They knew firsthand how white people acted when colored folks broke the unspoken rules, forgot their place. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Without turning her head from the audience, Hilly gestures to her left, where two dozen colored women have lined up, dressed in their white uniforms. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The data collected on the colored pilgrims and their descendants over years and decades, the doctor said, will prove one of the boldest scientific enterprises in history. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

And then she wondered if she had said too much, and she colored a little in embarrassment. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

You had a long wig and colored contacts. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

It is absolutely necessary to their structure that there should be no contact with foreigners except, to a limited extent, with war prisoners and colored slaves. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Everything was done at last, even to Amy’s arranging different colored soaps to match the different colored rooms, and Beth’s setting the table for the first meal. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

That makes me stare a little longer ’cuz I never knew women wrote books, ’specially colored women. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

Bars of soap are brightly fragranced, and colored in soft pastels. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

And I said, “Is it a long cake with a square cross section which is divided into equally sized, alternately colored squares?” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Even in Medallion there was a victorious swagger in the legs of white men and a dull-eyed excitement in the eyes of colored veterans. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Patience, son. You don’t have to lie down anymore, but you’d better stay in the back. People don’t like to see colored kids riding up front with white folks.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“The whole town has a good history with helping coloreds and stuff like that. The underground railroad used to go through Galesburg.” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tree-ear knew that potters sometimes attempted to paint designs on their work using colored slip. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Every year under apartheid, some colored people would get promoted to white. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Some remaining windows, ones in which the colored glass had shattered, were now paned in a thick, ordinary glass that distorted the view through bubbles and ripples. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know, but colored people should say something,” I tell her. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Vonetta and Fern squealed as if the little colored girl in the commercial were standing in our room eating buttered bread. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He has a look of amazing brilliance, as if at any minute his head will light up and become transparent, disclosing a huge brightly colored brain inside. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The dishes seemed impossibly fragile, the china thinner than a cracker and painted with brightly colored elephants. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

But the colored boy in the black suit driving the wagon and his queer smile discomfited strangers. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He’d tested out markers and oil sticks and colored pencils and chalk and pens and pastels and watercolors. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

We saw a few mill people near the tracks, picking blackberries into lard buckets, and a whole family of colored people. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Will he make me get up and move to the back of the bus behind the “coloreds” signs? While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Rumors circulate through the Paris museum, moving fast, as quick and brightly colored as scarves. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

One principal said out loud what many were thinking, expressing concern over “the emotional tendency of the colored to knife and kill.” A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

There was a carpet on the floor more wonderfully colored than anything he had ever seen and his feet sank down into it as if he were treading in thick moss. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

The little fingers were colored blue, the index fingers red and so forth. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

The last thing I needed was colored gangsters up against me. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Brightly colored knee socks with white borders, a brown velvet coat trimmed in white rabbit fur, and a matching muff. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

It colored the nearby trees a faint violet, and glinted off the wall of mist that had gathered over the asphalt. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

There were no coloreds that I had seen and I didn’t have logger clothes on neither. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her face, while a bit wrinkled, was red-cheeked and finely colored. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Some of them raised colored tents, some of them arrived in their own caravans drawn by huge grey horses or by small, shaggy ponies. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Like most businesses in that part of town the sweet shop was run and owned entirely by colored people, and Ophie realized she had never ever seen such a thing before. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

No one else in the cell knew what to make of us, the ruthless colored gangster and his menacing, Hulk-like friend. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Which was that a hardworking and respected colored maid has agreed to let me interview her and describe in specifics what it’s like to work for the white women of our town. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Like all colored people, I had learned that from a young age. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A hint of a north wind lightly ruffled the water, lead colored now in the late afternoon haze. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The domes of the city, Brother Cyrus said, were all connected by silk ribbons, and children balanced upon them like tightrope walkers, dashing from palace to palace in capes of colored feathers. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

State law in Delaware once had explicitly restricted jury service to white men, and “no colored citizen had ever been summoned as a juror.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

While the other containers were brightly colored and marked with company logos, this one was black with big patches of orange rust. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

I smiled and avoided looking at Jilly Baker, who probably thought I wouldn't be any good because I was colored. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Straightway a meeting was called among the colored people, under the stereotyped notice, “Business of importance!” Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 1845-05-01T00:00:00Z

There ain't enough horses to go around, and a few of the younger men have to run with the colored folks. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I sit down at my desk, thinking about whether I should give the colored disc to Oliver. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Even their speech is colored and shaped by what they must undergo. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

First it was a rug, then a washtub, then a lamp with a colored silk shade. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s all them white peoples that breaks me, standing around the colored neighborhood. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I see a piece of paper with a colored picture on it. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I confess I wasn’t too clear exactly what that meant, but I followed everybody else and got colored paper and glue and scissors. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

The sunlight pouring through the colored glass outlined their sweet young bodies through the thin cloth, and Tyrion felt a stirring in his groin. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I knew it wasn’t a boardinghouse that would take colored. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She glanced over at the colored girls again. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

They danced through Meggie’s dream, brightly colored and shaggy, their wide mouths smiling, baring their pointed little teeth. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

To see chains on another person and be glad they are not your own—such was the good fortune permitted colored people, defined by how much worse it could be any moment. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

There could be the whole team, eighteen of us, waiting for some water at the colored fountain, and the white fountain next to it be empty. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ghosts wearing jeans and colored beads like they wear during Mardi Gras. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

And the disparate literature of the colored tribes. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

A few colored men sit under a distant shed, staring into the heat. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

There is a tray full of glass sundae dishes filled with brightly colored ice cream. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

The church’s windows were of colored glass, each window a scene with Jesus and his cross. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Ever since the televised newscast I’ve been trying not to check, but now I can’t help but see that the leg is completely colored in. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Not only did we count how many colored people were on TV, we also counted the number of words the actors were given to say. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The article went on to say that the Soviets also liked to hide explosives inside brighdy colored toys. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

The curse that colored people carry is having no clearly defined heritage to go back to. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Everywhere he looked there were buckets of loose metal bits, tiny motors, gears, springs, nuts, bolts, and brightly colored tin. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

“Who’s going to live in them? There’s no colored people who can afford to have two houses,” Lena said. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

While in the studio, Maria learned the finer points of vellum, and it became her lifelong favorite for painting precise, richly colored images. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The pictures were more like road maps colored in blue and red than flesh and bones. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

I found Mother’s lipstick and colored my face red. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

In fact, there were streets where colored people owned all the stores; whole blocks of handsome colored men and women laughing all night and making money all day. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when I seent how my lies and tricks had worked so good on this colored boy, the only thing I felt was puny and low. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Donald is tall, wearing jeans and flip-flops and a paprika- colored shirt whose sleeves are rolled up to just above his elbows. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

With that type of crowd, there wasn’t anything they wouldn’t do to a colored person. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were all colored men; I never saw a white man working Grampa’s fields. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

On the walls were several prints, which were of elongated figures, murkily colored. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The guards had walked him down a gray stone stairway and out into a plaza filled with brightly colored things, with people and with objects. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t easy for a colored person to be traveling back then. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

After that runs out, they hoped that at some stations there would be food for colored. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They didn't want someone to be making everyone look bad and be spoiling the colored besides. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Others dressed more plainly— men in tunics and hooded cloaks, women in colored silks. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Many colored people lived in this limbo, a true purgatory, always yearning for the white fathers who disowned them, and they could be horribly racist to one another as a result. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Rahel watched his stomach suck inwards and his rib cage rise as his wet T-shirt peeled away from his skin, leaving it wet and honey- colored. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She hit the cue ball in such a way that it gave a pathetic half roll to the side, gently knocking into a colored ball with a faint click. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Once we had memorized the keyboard, our fingers were colored with chalk. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

At my school they made fun of colored people’s lips and noses. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She insisted she was colored and just as good as white,” Ward informed the judge. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Uncle Willie, who never was one for explaining things because he took after Momma, said little except that “colored people hadn’t even bothered a hair on whitefolks’ heads.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Glancing around in what I hoped looked like intense concentration, I noticed a few fragments of colored chalk on the ledge of the board. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

He didn’t like the sound of “colored girl.” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was highly colored now, and Harry wondered why he did not take off the ridiculously large coat, unless it was because he did not want to reveal the smock beneath it. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Everwhere in town they got a colored bathroom, and most the houses do too. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I looked more closely and, at the counter, saw a white and a colored man sitting next to each other. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then there was a swarming done by the fanciest-dressed colored folk that ever come together, piling into the spot where I was. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

There would be a colored and white bathroom. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She complained there was no “cafe au lait”-colored construction paper for her skin, or “sixty-percent-cacao-chocolate” color for her eyes. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

The colored man’s boots was stained with blood and gore too. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

In those days, it seems like everything had two stories, the white story and the colored story. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her freshly colored hair is tied up in a ponytail, and she’s scrubbing the cupboard doors. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

All the colored folks do that, but it don’t get ’em nothing. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The colored entrance was around the side but apart from that was identical to the white entrance, in the original design and not an afterthought, as was so often the case. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Doctor Warren told his colored man to make up a bed for Johnny in the surgery. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

We could call ourselves Vanilla Wafers, Chocolate Chips, or Oreo Cookies for all I cared about black girls and colored girls. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kit colored and looked down at the browning grass. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

The butcher had held no strong opinions on the subject of colored education and had permitted the boy to study with the children of some freemen. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

We walked directly over to the brightly colored sacks of flour, and Grandma reached above them to the stacked boxes of baking soda. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Jagged flames danced across the surface of the fog, colored a bright sodium- red. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Most colored didn’t even have guns issued to us. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Eden Park, I encountered two types of colored people. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The new race laws forbid colored men and women from setting foot on North Carolina soil. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The eastern sky was peach colored, but a handful of lazy stars still blinked in the west. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Missus Walters turns and hobbles toward the door, the colored nurse in tow. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

People clap and “oooh” like Crick is delivering each of them a luxury hovercraft instead of colored juice. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The sheriff took me to where the woman was sharing a cell with four other colored gals and two white ones. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

In a half dozen others were papers, some written on, others sealed, some with line after line of careful script crossed out with thick colored lines. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

A smattering of freckles colored the rosy skin at the tops of his cheeks. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

“You said he talks like a colored man.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

But her mom let her walk over to the inn, and she immediately started working on her Resilient Helenwood project, pulling papers and colored pencils out of her bag. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

For a long trip, the colored often bring a hamper with food. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only change is Bob and Bill standing near the line of colored shoppers, only too happy to use their rifles if anyone should get out of hand. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

For the first time, I felt as if I couldn't talk to anybody, colored or white. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, we had very few books of any kind in our school library, and the library downtown—the “colored” library—didn’t have many more. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

She had imagined a soaring dome, a richly colored Ezine carpet, but the room is just a simple auditorium. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“There’s plenty colored boys looking for work these days.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She dreamed she was in a schoolyard where girls in blue dresses and blue pants with brightly colored sweaters hooked arms and laughed, shutting her out from their group. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mama said that maybe where Pete is now, if they have a team, colored could play in those big leagues. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Brittle, brightly colored leaves arranged in a forest-floor collage: This is a book. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

She even found an illustrated copy of Grimm’s Fairy Tales with brightly colored pictures of pale princes and princesses that she put aside to take downstairs for later. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Its long tail whipped behind it as it ran; a row of spines stretched from its head to the tip of its tail, colored gold and reddish gold. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Even the sky fills with brightly colored blossoms of light. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Since we’d moved to a colored neighborhood, my mom thought the cats would be okay. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Every morning Louis, the colored boy downstairs, brought him a cup of coffee to drink in bed. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Up on the Wonder Dome, thirty-two brightly colored names in a balloon font popped into view as the players finished tapping them into their phones. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

You couldn’t judge very much from his productions in different colored chicken feathers and nutshells. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They don’t let colored folks in libraries, baby. Now go fetch some eggs for your mama so I can start this cornbread.” Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

They tended not to employ colored help so Bessie had little information about their day to day. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I follow the colored man down the steps a the bus. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

In other years on New Year’s morning the streets would be littered with shreds of colored firecracker paper. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chip Cusumano nodded at me from the doorway and began to examine our line of brightly colored steeper mugs. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Sometimes the West End would show a “colored” movie, one of the films made by black producers. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Then on Saturday night the colored would make money for their church by putting on a show for us white folks. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

There wasn’t a colored person there, except for the maid in the kitchen who was putting sandwiches on a table. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those cafes up north would serve a colored man but not one who couldn’t read. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Liz was funny and outspoken and clever, and I didn’t see how all that had changed, just because people were now calling her colored. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

A teacher crippled by a country that offered little promise or future for its indigenous and colored inhabitants. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Besides, I couldn’t go from planning to sock him to asking him about being a colored Chinese boy in one good blink. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

That fall, they started the first school for colored children near Marshall. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like last week, when Miss Skeeter showed me Miss Hilly’s reasons why colored folk need they own bathroom. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

See, I think if God had intended for white people and colored people to be this close together for so much of the day, he would’ve made us color-blind. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

After the colored leaves were taken down, there were pumpkin faces. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

All my life I’d been told what to believe about politics, coloreds, being a girl. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

She was instructed to stay instead in a rooming house in town—a place “for coloreds,” she was told. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

She would wear her unfashionable ivory- colored gown, last seen at a victory ball after the War. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She longed to have colored pencils for her pictures of the imaginary city. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It had never occurred to me that colored people needed their own beach. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

It had four different- colored bands—black, brown, blue, and white—so you could change your watchband to match your outfit. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was the wrong one, though, and they sent us over to another one that served colored. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wondered if Liz was like some of the other kids at school, calling colored folks names I wasn’t allowed to say. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the prettiest one at the colored emporium. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“So many reasons, you white and me colored just fall somewhere in between.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

From some dark corner of my brain I realize I can’t see the colored shapes that would normally accompany the sound. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

With him, Naomi might pass for colored, but the four of them together didn’t make any sense. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

My idea of his best interests, I later concluded, was colored by the team I was on. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, I don’t think we’d ever had a colored person in our house until Betty Jean showed up ironing last week. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not that Mean Lady Ming would ay for her three colored girls. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rising to his feet, he fetched his pouch, took out the brightly colored bird, and gave it back to the blind man. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

It must have been twenty feet tall, walls lined with dark and light colored stones in an alternating pattern. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“You think coloreds are better than whites, boy?” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

For his heart was heavily beating, His heart was pounding hard, And his ugly chota features, Were colored the color of lard. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was Mexican American, so he considered himself colored and Indian. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Doctors, lawyers, Mr. Cross who own the Southern Times, the colored newspaper that come out ever week. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“Little colored girl say to the little white girl, ‘How come your skin be so pale?’ The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I suppose with her gray eyes and light brown hair, Lily could look white to some white people, but she'd never fool anyone colored. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Don’t believe I seen nan one colored person in the whole dang city. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those favoring a more gradual view of colored progress traded barbs with those on a more pressing schedule. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t ready to think of colored people in post offices yet. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Not because he was a white boy and she was a colored girl, and not because he was a teacher’s son. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

But she said, “Look at you. Another white lady trying to make a dollar off of colored people.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Her family had been the first colored family on her block, just like us. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Judge Ford did not remember a mole; she remembered copper- colored hair and thin lips, but it was so long ago, and well—Mrs. Westing was white. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she held out a pack of brand-new colored pencils. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Companionship with Sam had colored her concept of life. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Autumn filled the air with the slightly burnt scent of drying grasses, and the Wood was colored as if it were on fire. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s real close to the colored high school. The cutest colored boys in the whole universe work there. They’ll just die if they see me with you.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like the two women he’d encountered before, most wore plain brown tunics, and some had even accentuated their attire with brightly colored leaves woven into their kinky white hair. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

A little colored boy, about ten years old, drove a wagon up the street through the crowd, shouting at the two horses. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

She followed June to her front porch, where at least two dozen pieces of paper were scattered over the stone floor, along with about thirty different shades of colored pencils. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Immediately, now that they were out of Delaware and a long way from Maryland there would be no green-as-poison curtain separating the colored people eating from the rest of the diners. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

My family had never had a Christmas tree, but I remembered how once I had helped Papi wind colored lights around the eggplant bush that divided our land from Doña Ana’s. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

But when he heard all about ’em makin’ a town all outa colored folks, he knowed dat was de place he wanted to be. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

The church had been decorated, with sparse flowers from kitchen gardens and hedgerows, and with streamers of colored crepe paper. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Customers could find food staples, a good variety of colored thread, mash for hogs, corn for chickens, coal oil for lamps, light bulbs for the wealthy, shoestrings, hair dressing, balloons, and flower seeds. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lying in the colored ward of die hospital, which was a screened comer of a larger ward, Eva mused over the perfection of the judgment against her. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The rising sun nudged above the horizon and colored the eastern sky, flooding the Garrett farm with light, which shone on Booth’s face. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

In doing so, I’ve used the language of their times and backgrounds, including words such as colored. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

She was a Swede, and she let Laura and Mary look at the pretty things she had brought from Sweden—laces, and colored embroideries, and china. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The coffee shop buzzed, college students mingling like showy tropical fish with their brightly colored hair. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

All the disaster, all the pain the colored boy had caused already, and now the thought of him sniffing around Naomi. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

They wrote notes in her chart saying, “30 year-old colored female lying quietly in no evident distress,” and “Patient feels quite well tonight. Morale is good and she is ready to go home.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Let’s keep it there. 11TH JUROR: Facts may be colored by the personalities of the people who present them. 2ND JUROR: Anybody want a cough drop? 10TH JUROR: I’ll take one. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the end of the hallway, above the front door, is a fanlight of colored glass: flowers, red and blue. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had heard white folks say that colored didn’t need school, that school would be a waste ’cause the colored couldn’t learn their reading anyhow. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

To the untrained eye, it simply creates a beautiful mosaic of colored chromosomes. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Even though she knew which potions were which, Anya still labeled each of them with a different colored bit of yarn tied around the mouth. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

She could hear her mother’s thought quite distinctly, colored with some snark: the painting would have to know what it was before it could become real. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Her hair was tied with a bright colored handkerchief, and Stuart noticed that she carried a box of peppermints in her hand. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

In South Africa back then, it wasn’t common to find a white person or a colored person who spoke African languages; during apartheid white people were always taught that those languages were beneath them. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The kids at the back of the truck were tossing down the entirety of the truck’s load: boxes and crates of brightly colored fruit. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“Because he writes poems about being colored and living up North but missing the South and feeling lonely. Miss Fulton likes his poems too.” Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

Before me is a spread of colored pencils, oil pastels, charcoal. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“Jesus. Look at these bleachers. How many colored people—” My brother cut him off. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

It didn’t sound like much but after the war you would see colored folks trave I ing the countryside just like that. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The driver, wearing a black beret, leaned over, nodded, unlocked the front door, and said something like “Zilla,” which I guessed was short for Cecile in a colored, Oakland way. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a week before the race laws went into effect and violence against the colored population was on the rise in rehearsal. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I’m too embarrassed to watch her give Jason my picture, so I get down on my knees and hunt for colored pencils, some of which have rolled under the heater. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had brightly colored crayons at their desks. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The colored people in Auburn felt that they could not possibly support an institution which took its inmates in free of charge, and so began to charge an admittance fee. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

And there are cats with colored veins and arteries, and frogs the same. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I never had any complaints, but after Mexico I would say the train looked mighty fine even in the colored car that I rode in. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A woman with a taste for brightly colored dresses is there whose breasts are probably soft sealskin purses now, and who may need a few things. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tables full of colored folks are farthest away from the podium, and it feels intentional. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

But looking around, I could see that to get away I would have to fight against the crowd and make a scene, something else a colored man knew not to do. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She explained to me the color dynamic in South Africa, how there I would be considered colored because I was not dark enough to be considered black. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The driver was a colored boy who tipped his cap in a jaunty fashion. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

For three days Fifth Avenue was colored like a parrot. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

“Yes, the colored people. He gave over five million dollars to colored schools.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

When I’m alone, I let the dishes accumulate in the sink, I allow colored fur to grow in jars of leftovers, I use up all my underpants before washing any of them. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Days before, Tree-ear had mapped out the best places along the river for colored clay, and now he went directly to the first spot. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

When the spell wore off he asked Uncle Willie what colored people had done to white people in the first place. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would be of salmon- colored Italian marble, with statues made of the same material showing Rosa and Clara with angel wings, because they were, and always would be, angels. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

A brightly colored finch landed on the windowsill and sang so sweetly, Luna thought her heart would break. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Reading glasses hung around her neck on a brightly colored, woven cord, the kind from a global imports shop. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

It was a medley of yellow and green flowers on the walls, with mustard- colored appliances. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

The old colored woman leaned a hip against the prep table that cluttered the center of the kitchen. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Miles drove through the streets of Crane, memories of the cross-burning and the colored pool and the wall that the whites built bubbled to the surface. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yeah, when Jackie Robinson started with the Dodgers, it was as if life had changed, at least for the colored. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those ladies are the creme de la creme of Baltimore society, and their brightly colored dresses are the height of fashion. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

A shower of brilliantly colored sweets fell into Harry’s lap. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

“You reckon colored folks turn white like that if they drown?” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The nurse shooed Emmett and his brothers out of the ward to the room designated for colored blood collection, where they’d donate eight pints of blood. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I guess I thought it would be like visiting Constantine, where friendly colored people waved and smiled, happy to see the little white girl whose daddy owned the big farm. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Still, watching colored people hired more often and being promoted, that felt good. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A careful pattern of colored stones decorated the station beneath Lumbly’s farm, and wooden slabs covered the walls of Sam’s station. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

In Tempe, segregation never seemed to be a big deal; in Greenwood things were different It wasn’t just the schools; restaurants, movie theaters, stores, even the neighborhoods were divided into white or colored. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

The bag she carried over her shoulder was filled with colored threads and yarns that Annabella had given to her. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mondrian has laid out his colored “tiles” along a grid system that appropriately resembles a city map. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was riding up our street when this cute colored girl came out to the road and stopped me. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The colored one was far away and was rusty and looked as though it had long ago been abandoned on some junk pile. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Across the street, in front of the barbershop, I saw three colored men frozen in place. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Of course those boys went too far. Whatever that colored boy deserved, he didn’t deserve getting shot and tossed into the Tallahatchie, that’s for sure.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

I also had a drawing pad and colored pencils, a manila envelope with important prison and parole papers, and my copy of The Brothers Karamazov. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

He had noticed with a terrible pang of fear that the drops were falling on a face, depicted in tiny pieces of colored stone. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Brightly colored houses sat prettily in their kempt plots, side by side. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Papers and notebooks were spread over the top of it, as well as some scattered colored pencils and thin-tipped markers. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Thing was, usually it would be the white man talking and the colored man listening and nodding. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She imagined him as a child surrounded by too many brightly colored toys, always being encouraged to carry out “projects,” always being told that his mundane ideas were wonderful. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I hope everybody in Cold Sassy will come, white and colored. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

V followed the stream of visitors in chef’s hats and colored aprons, some toting cake pans under their arms, others simply fidgeting nervously. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

“They don't know I'm colored,” Lily went on. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

“You probably memorized the colored letters when you were a baby,” she says. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

The parade of famous visitors spreading the farm’s renown made the place into a symbol of colored uplift—and a target. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Gruesome reports reached the farm concerning a posse that had strung up some colored troublemakers the previous night. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Each square had a plain white background, but in the center was a pinwheel-shaped flower, every petal a different colored fabric. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

But there were other prisoners too, I soon learned, all of whom wore different colored triangles. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

The first time was the day after one of the colored girls from Central had been surrounded by a mob at the bus stop. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Except there weren’t any cameras or spies following the colored, broad-shouldered Mata Hari. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

They left behind puffs of colored smoke that drifted away like tiny fairy clouds. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

"But why? Why are the colored people doing all that...rioting? I'm trying to understand. Do you know anything? I mean, do you know people over there or maybe have relatives?" It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

I still tell myself that when he drove away that day he wasn’t saying good riddance; he was saying, Oh, Lily, you’re better off there in that house of colored women. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

One hundred souls was a sturdy number to stop at—a fantastic figure by any measure—and that didn’t account for the colored farmers who’d purchased adjacent land and got their own operations going. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Just the way Grandpa planned it, all the stores closed that day, and folks white and colored lined North Main and South Main, waving their Confederate flags. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The spokes were gold colored and the steel-frame body red, like a candy apple. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The burn is maroon- colored and wrinkled like a dead apple. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He writes these notes in colored pencil, different colors, with exclamation marks. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Does he seem intelligent? Does he seem to be actingV’ “I don’t know, Mr. Britten. He’s just like all the other colored boys.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I enjoyed his surprise in seeing a colored man with money, but I was smart enough not to let it show. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They always hired colored kids to help out for the summer. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

In no time, an older colored lady came out and looking none too happy either. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stopped at last before a gigantic, colored poster that represented a wicked woman, half undressed, leaning in a doorway, apparently quarreling with a blond man who stared wretchedly into the street. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

A colored guy who would get arrested for vagrancy if he didn’t work. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

An SS guard comes to us and pins a piece of colored paper on our shirts. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Certainly this was the most lively song they had ever heard, the musicians the most accomplished players the colored race had to offer. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The colored lanterns that had lit the path to the stadium had been extinguished. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

There were certainly colored bathrooms on the East Side, but with most black professionals concentrated on the West Side, and fewer new buildings on the East Side, Mary might need a map to find them. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Where they got off the train at Maitiand he found a buggy to carry them over to the colored town right away. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

She colored her hair to be lighter and never spoke about Arman and drank tea with her pinky up. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The old woman led the boy to a room at the back of her house; it was separated from her living room by a curtain of colored beads. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first Ophie wasn’t sure what Penelope meant, but as they got closer she could see that all the people filing into the theater were colored. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Social calls stretched into the evening now that so many colored settlers had put down roots, the advance guard of a great migration. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The pavilion and courtyard had painted walls and floors of colored sand and clay; heavy sculptural objects, including several of the trademark heads, studded the area. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

A broad, brightly colored map of the coastline was spread on the master’s desk, weighted at each end by a heavy book. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cocktails are poured at the bar in a variety of oddly shaped and colored glasses. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

They talked a bit more, the cap’n counted out some more bills, then the bloody colored man counted ’em and said, “Reach me the paper back.” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

He takes a long strip of colored paper and wraps it around my upper arm. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

There are map people whose joy is to lavish more attention on the sheets of colored paper than on the colored land rolling by. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nobody colored lived much up in the Bottom any more. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Favorite pots showed their dark bottoms from hooks and gaily colored flowers from the pasture leaned out of thin glassware. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Quickly he pushed through the crowd until he saw a white girl fighting with a colored girl by the ticket booth of the flying-jinny. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

True, I had heard that colored people were killed and beaten, but so far it all had seemed remote. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Liz had been the only colored girl in a whole school full of white kids. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I ain’t sure I want you in here no more. A colored man got to have some rights even if he don’t like ‘em.” Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, but this isn’t the colored car, it’s a white car.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

After all, what else could a colored girl like Penelope want from a white man who was so very high above her station? Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Before the camps, Nikkei were trying to ride the American power like some surfers she saw once at Manhattan Beach, muscular men balancing on long, colored boards atop the rushing waves. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

All this, colored and in a thousand different forms, had always been there. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

I peered down the row of brightly colored shops but didn't see her. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

African Americans lived in racially segregated ghettos isolated by railroad tracks within small towns or in "colored sections" in the country. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The boys wore cheap, garishly colored double-breasted suits. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He bought me cheap gifts: a glass figurine, a prickly brooch of cut glass, a silver- colored cigarette lighter. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Back when the Night’s Watch had been much larger, its walls had been hung with rows of brightly colored wooden shields. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He didn’t want them to vote for him solely because he was colored or Asian. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tiptoed up behind her and suddenly put my hand in front of her eyes, holding the colored handkerchief I had just bought for her. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some are in variously colored tank tops and short sets, and others are wearing helmets, strange big-shouldered shirts, and unnecessarily tight pants that stop at the knee. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

Finally, we reached a wide square where the carnival was in full, rollicking swing, packed with masses of people and brightly colored tents and more activity than my eyes could take in at once. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Scout, you probably don’t know it, but the NAACP-paid lawyers are standing around like buzzards down here waiting for things like this to happen—” “You mean colored lawyers?” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

A farm that colored their lives like a paintbrush and spoke to them like a sermon. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eden Park was a colored neighborhood adjacent to several black townships on the East Rand. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“A lot a colored womens got to give they children up, Miss Skeeter. Send they kids off cause they have to tend to a white family.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“He’s gone. Some weird little colored man with white eyes came to the door.” The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

We go inside after that and decorate our sugar skulls with glitter Fina brought and brightly colored icing that Mom helps us mix up. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Finally, he must have gotten some good sense, “I d-d-didn’t mean nothing. My friend here was sharing his lunch, and—” R.C. shoved him in the chest “White folk don’t share nothin’ with colored, boy. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Unlike the grand ivory buildings in the Fair’s Court of Honor, these walls were painted in garish shades of red and bronze as though colored by a premonition of fire. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Young man, do your parents know you’re having a colored girl’s baby?” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

They were so full of happiness, and Dreamer’s Weep was colored by it. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Then next furthest away and to the west were some big clouds which were colored slightly orange because it was nearly evening and the sun was going down. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The colored part of town seems so far away when, evidently, it’s only a few miles from the white part of town. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The top berth had no mattress and he used it to display the vocational and educational certificates he’d earned at Chad, the squares of colored paper arranged in orderly lines. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Through the gap in the wall he could see colored tents being raised, stalls being erected, colored flags, and people walking back and forth. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Lily had heard from someone that there were only a few colored kids there and nobody talked to them and they had to huddle together at lunchtime while people ignored them. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Luke followed to find her jerking open a closet door, then punching buttons on a panel of colored lights. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You know where that colored girl lives?” he asked. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had trouble finding the brilliantly colored pieces of cotton cloth she needed. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind him stands Nessie, the colored girl who braided my hair, with a steaming bowl of water and a cloth. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

No way colored folks would be allowed at a Survivalist shindig. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

First time in my life I saw the white folks and the colored folks together in a crowd. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

You expected everything to be wonderful at Christmastime, and the town was wonderful, with colored lights and decorated trees in every direction. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Guides held up colored placards with different numbers and lectured in dozens of languages like they were playing some kind of international bingo. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I did not object to being called colored, but I knew that there was something my mother was holding back. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Did Granny become colored when she married Grandpa?” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s Tuesday and I’m putting on my white jeans and my nice sandy- colored boots. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Then closest to the ground was a huge cloud which was colored gray because it was a rain cloud. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He’s carrying a basket full of plastic eggs, all colored blue. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The woman with the reddish colored hair, the one who used to feed him, was gone. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

On a chilly evening last autumn, the powerful men of North Carolina convened to solve the colored question. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

In the amendments to the state’s constitution, the punishment for possessing seditious writings, or for aiding and abetting a colored person, was left to the discretion of local authorities. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The colored folks ain’t all that different from the white working-class folks, since Tuesday is payday for the cowpokes as well and they're all up in the saloon spending what little they got. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

She survived the shock of her first elevator ride and stepped into a long corridor lined with chairs, all of which were full of colored men and women awaiting examinations. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

As their plane fell, colored flashes exploded from it—they were the aircrew’s signal flares exploding. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

He’s wearing faded jeans with a hole in one knee and a brightly colored dashiki. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

It was the size of a small fishbowl, bright coral, with colored straws and paper parasols and bits of fruit sticking out of it at frenetic angles. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Maybe that’s why she started whispering about Naomi and Mr. Crane’s colored boy. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Not yet. A colored boy and a drover are walking the line and counting how many of those bodies used to be folks we know. Are you okay?” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Each one of us sat at the center of a pile of ripped paper and empty boxes and gaily colored toys. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Kit colored to the edge of her bonnet. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Jon glowed for me then like a plum in sunlight, richly colored, perfect in form. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

On the opposite wall is a map of the United States with colored pins stuck in it. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

She’s on a hot-pink Electra with brightly colored stencils on the fenders that remind me of one of the modern art paintings we saw on our class trip to the Norton Museum last year. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

A tall colored boy stepped into the house. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then there was poor Colin, a colored boy who had come to the manor as a child. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Levy stood staring at her husband, her colored lashes motionless. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It made Ophie think of the angry white men who hunted down colored folks just because they could. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“Because you’re colored? Or because you don’t... want to be friends with me?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Stunted stalks of corn, just waist-high, their leaves already russet colored and curling in on themselves, stretched forlornly in broken rows across parched, brown fields. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

"And the colored stripes tell time, which is very handy if your electric clock stopped. Each stripe burns exactly one-half hour, more or less. Twelve stripes, six hours." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rumors swirled about Union generals sending the colored units out to be massacred with inefficient gear and less pay than the white soldiers. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

And so did just about everybody who lived in Cold Sassy, white and colored. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

They ran along the track looking for the coach pointed out to them by the colored porter. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

God, would they beat her the way they beat the colored boy who used the white bathroom? The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

But if Henry heard that people in his town saw her not just as Mexican but as colored, he might try to send her back and keep the twins. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The small revolver Vic has smuggled in for him—just in case—is wrapped snugly in an extra shirt, a dark colored shirt, and a dark colored pair of pants for escaping at night. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

She must have had her hair recently colored because it was so blue it looked like a massive hydrangea blossom. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Eliot followed her, walking for the first time in his sneakers across the pear- colored carpet. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

He had it all written down in a notebook and even had pictures drawn with colored pencils. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

It stood well back from the rattle and bustle of Marlborough Street, with its glassy-eyed copper Indian on top of the cupola and its carved and colored lion and unicorn of Britain over the door. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Newspapers and history books were, of course, always colored and biased, but falsification of the kind that is practiced today would have been impossible. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

As I’m nodding in contentment, my phone begins vibrating noisily on my desk, making the colored pencils dance. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

We passed Rosie’s house and at the clothes line right at the edge of the cliff there was a young girl hanging out brightly colored garments. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

They finally leave with handfuls of intricately colored glass beads, some bells, small mirrors, and a large copper pot. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Only good thing was that after that battle, no one could say that the coloreds couldn’t be good soldiers too. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, quickly substituting his own bird, he passed it to the blind man and put the colored bird into his own pouch. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

I could see that one of them was riding a light colored horse. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“A white woman gets her house egged and the police find a colored boy nearby, that’s all they need to know.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can recite whole psalms, whole chapters, I can sing all the colored- slide white-knight Sunday school songs without looking. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“What about my eye? They’re all too light- colored to hide that.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

They’s two colored mens inside, one drinking a cup a coffee, the other asleep setting straight up. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I repacked my duffel, put my shirt and coat back on and wondered how I could best leave the colored rest room without attracting attention. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Naturally we have discussed this matter extensively. And without doubt as members of the colored race here in this free country of America we are anxious to do our part toward extending amicable relationships.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

By the time I was a teenager, anytime I was profiled by cops or security guards, it usually wasn’t because I was black but because I looked colored. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The family could have been deported, my gran could have been arrested, my mom might have gone to prison, and I probably would have been packed off to a home for colored kids. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

They was just talking like two people, not like a colored and a white talking. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sylvanus and the colored girl was laughing and enjoying one the ’nother’s company and I slid my eyes o’er to ’em and something all the sudden hit me and made me want to cry. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

On the way home, all Suesetta can talk about is the boycott we will be having next month at one of the local grocery stores that still refuses to hire coloreds. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“No, sir. He’s colored. But why are you asking me all this?” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Your grampa and his friends in the White Citizens’ Council are pretty worked up over it They’re dead set on keeping the colored schools separate from the white. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

I know I should be embarrassed, but they're so unlike people that I'm no more self-conscious than if a trio of oddly colored birds were pecking around my feet. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

And a colored man taught mathematics at the junior high school. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The late afternoon sun warmed its softly colored bricks and the small-paned windows seemed to dance in the sunshine. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The cap’n was a man of his word too; wouldn’t back down from a crowd of two, three hunnert yelling and screaming colored folk. Dared ’em to do anything to him.” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

The door closes, and I turn to my desk, pulling on a pair of latex gloves and taking out my colored pencils. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

After graduation she returned to a work world in which colored girls, regardless of their background, were in demand for one and only one kind of work. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Besides, he told me, if I did start wearing colored contacts, those girls would only say I was trying to be something I’m not, and he’s right. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t see any white folks, just all kinds of colored people, some rushing past bringing books in, some bringing books out, some working at the front desk. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

I walk farther down, and on the wall across from the girls’ bathroom, there’s a world map with colored pins. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

In the same way, preserved Indian lore throws a brilliantly colored but indirect light on the past. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“I think it would be best if'n you walked. The sheriff doesn’t like coloreds in the wagon.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

It looked like a kid had colored the world—unafraid to use every pencil in the box. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Now colored folks like Ophie and her mother, historically in bondage, exercised the freedom they did have to make their way to the city, escaping the chokehold of Jim Crow. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

But with Medgar Evers’s murder and colored people getting arrested and beat by the police, I’m sure she’s scared to death by now. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

In one way or another, that was the talk that all colored fathers had with their sons. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took a room with three other men in a colored boardinghouse in Five Points and hung a shingle as a barber until he met the famous Eugene Wheeler. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The list a them reasons why white folk and colored folk can’t be sharing a seat. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Where colored men worked harbors for $2.50 a day, pulling cargo from ships bigger than churches, and others drove up to the very door of your house to take you where you needed to be. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Gideon walks over to a map marked with colored pins, removing his hat and hanging it on a nearby hook. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I knew enough to say baroto, the cheapest fare, but I couldn’t figure out how to ask for the colored car and he didn’t say nothing either. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She built castles with Maybeth, decorating them with bits of shell and colored stones, telling stories about princesses and giants. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘This here the way it is,’ said the colored girl. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Together, the Witchlings walked past the brightly colored flowers and enormous willow trees and to the Uncle’s door. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

“These people—the coloreds—had a lot of status,” the Jamaican sociologist Orlando Patterson says. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“In no other county did I find the school houses upon the whole in such an inferior condition as I find them in this county for the colored school children,” he reported. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Farther out, I nodded to a colored man driving his wagon on a dirt road alongside the track. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the old man had given five million dollars to colored people. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

A garish red abrasion colored his fore- head. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Except that back home the laborers were colored, not Mexican. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were the first colored family on this block, and for the first few weeks we were very aware of our “coloredness” every time we stepped out the front door. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

The yellow Whitman’s Sampler box that held my colored pencils, stickers, and scraps of paper still smelled of chocolate but no longer contained a delicious assortment of candy. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Donald is a moderately talented painter of small still lifes of single, everyday objects: an egg, a cup, a comb, suspended against brightly colored backgrounds. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone was colored and I knew I was in the right car. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

After trying many different ways of matching up her colored letters, she finally found something that worked. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

He revived the form and was delighted to see what could be done with colored pins. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Very gently he eased himself in on his side and turned slowly and laced his fingers behind his head and stared at the myriads of tiny colored dots that make up darkness. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

A kind and generous man, Lewis Krakauer loved his five children deeply, in the autocratic way of fathers, but his worldview was colored by a relentlessly competitive nature. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes were dull as if they'd been colored in brown and smudged. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The Board shall maintain a separate building on separate grounds for the instruction of all blind persons of the colored race. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

When I spoke to Bailey about it, he agreed that I was right, but he also informed me that Mr. Cullinan had two daughters by a colored lady and that I knew them very well. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I believe,” said Mrs. Brewer, “that Mr. Shelton—he’s a colored teacher at Horace Mann—is working on filing a suit with the NAACP.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Remember when we used to put on those awful flashing colored lights?” his mother says now when they are done, shaking her head. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Trees shattered. There were giant colored butterflies. I fell in a pit of orange bubbles.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

All along one side of it were shelves full of colored prints and calicos. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rather than go back and down the three wooden steps again, Helene decided to spare herself some embarrassment and walk on through to the colored car. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Everybody knew, didn’t they, that families like Courtney’s did not eat with colored people? The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Fourteen more newspapermen told about the smoke and the bones and said that Bigger acted “just like all other colored boys.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

All of them were wearing white uniforms, with a different colored X marked on each of their backs and a number written in black above it. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Mingo, with his schemes for the next stage in the progress of the colored tribe, and Lander, whose elegant but opaque appeals offered no easy remedy. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

All I saw was one little kid, a colored kid, on his way to the bathroom. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

But afore he could say a word, a old, dried-up colored woman hollered out, “Oh, my Lord! No! No! No! It caint be!” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Girls wear their hair colored, curled, laid, and slayed. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

It was rich and poor, white and colored, us and them. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I think this: If I hold one of those rocks I will be covered in colored glitter dots. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

“Artwork isn't finished just because you've colored up to every corner on the page. Artwork is finished when you get to the end of your sentence.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Different colored sands painted a boy with glasses holding a feather in one hand and a book in the other in the center of a giant circular mural. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

My sisters and I became expert colored counters. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dub often said that his boys would have won a championship as well—if there were enough colored high school teams in the state to have an actual tournament. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

There were painted baskets and beaded curtains, paperweights with various objects suspended in them, dried flowers, colored grains and beans. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I take that, and they even have the book Miss Fulton read, with poems by Countee Cullen and all the other colored poets. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

There were four beds in the room, each covered with a brightly colored quilt: hundreds of patches of red and orange and yellow and brilliant green stitched together. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

I march over and grab a handful of colored pencils, putting them safely back in the pencil holder they belong in. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Before, slave patrollers searched the premises of colored individuals at will, be they free or enslaved. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Vickers Park was in the middle of Vista Heights, the oldest colored neighborhood of town. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“When we all found out she was colored.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the music followed the colored lights, he knew he had just drawn the last sweet air left for him in the world. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meggie would have known what book it was even if she hadn’t recognized the colored jacket. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He had bought more fancy clothes from the colored emporium, she noted with pleasure, a dark suit that fit him well. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

We spent the afternoon making decorations from colored paper and clamping tiny candles in tiny holders to the branches. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“Naw. Down south. Jacksonville, Florida. Bad country, boy. Bad, bad country. You know they ain’t even got an orphanage in Jacksonville where colored babies can go? They have to put ’em in jail. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The comic books are drawn in great detail and garishly colored, with green and purple and sulfur-yellow prevailing. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I would only take cases for colored people against white people. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

They met again on Sunday on route 6 away from the colored part of town. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or would they split up, the mother taking the colored child to live in the ghetto while the father stayed white to make a living to support them? Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I take a window seat behind a thin colored fella. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

They were beautifully colored and firm and hard from the cold water. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

“Don’t believe in giving them one more excuse to knock a colored man down,” Daddy says all the time. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

These feathers were not grey, as were the feathers on top of the snake-eating birds, but were colored red and green. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

“Be nice to the little colored girls when you’re down there,” Mother said to me one time and I remember looking at her funny, saying, “Why wouldn’t I be?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

There was a colored man at the counter and a couple of white men at a table. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, scattered around the house, there are stacks of drawings made by his students with colored pencils. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“They say when you see a rainbow in the sky, you are seeing Nuwa and the colored stones she put there,” Amah said. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

But he looks the white men in the eye sees the way so many of them can't understand a colored man telling them what they need to do. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

That means you have a ration book with colored stamps in it. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

It’s not shaped like love, not colored like it, but harsh, war-colored, metallic. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The old colored lady, Miss Alice, who rode in the morning, was not there and neither was her sobbing daughter, but an older colored man who smiled and offered everyone peppermints often was. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Henri had been painting with glue, iron rust, and colored chicken feathers but he changed and his next four paintings were done entirely with different kinds of nutshells. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sky was stained and colored; the clouds were thickened; the mountains took on an iron taint. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The proctors arranged the socials to foster healthy relations between colored men and women, and to undo some of the damage to their personalities wrought by slavery. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The owner was colored, but he didn’t look at me like I had three heads, just took my money and went on to helping someone else. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she was still a tyke, her mother had taught her to use a needle, to pull it through woven fabric and create a pattern with colored threads. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The second time, I brought some colored pencils and told him they were old ones I'd found in the back of my closet. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

As the colored residents settled into South Carolina life, the doctors monitored their physical well-being with as much dedication as the proctors who took measure of their emotional adjustments. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

His signs appeared all over the halls, and gushing fifth-grade girls colored in the loops secretly to show their eternal love and devotion to the artist. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

The two colored men sat down on an iron bench a little away from the most crowded part, but not the edge. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stepped off the elevator wearing a peach- colored pantsuit. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

She nodded toward the colored woman, who was nearly to the ditch that separated the unfenced pasture from the road. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

June had colored it an azure blue, and there was a red heart in its middle, taking up half of the whale’s body. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Ever colored person in Jackson gets in front a whatever tee-vee set they can find, watches Martin Luther King stand in our nation’s capital and tell us he’s got a dream. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Steering the colored pilgrims down this or that path, buying them from estates and the block in order to conduct this experiment? The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Olivia has colored tabs dividing every class notebook in some personal system of priorities, and she plays Minecraft like a demon. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

A powdery, colored breeze lifted her hair and blew it like a rippled shawl around his armless shoulder, that ended abruptly, like a cliff. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pillows embroidered with tiny mirrors are strewn across it, and lamps of colored glass hang from the roof, catching the last rays of sunlight. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Cora was well-accustomed to the screams of colored babies in torment, hungry, in pain, confused by the mania of those charged to protect them. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Consider seven pieces of transparent paper colored with the seven basic colors of the rainbow. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The widow of a big Boston lawyer, she collected funds for various ventures, the publication and dissemination of colored literature a particular concern. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Barefoot atop the peach- colored mound, their faces smeared with dirt, they quickly scoop the sawdust into rusty tin cans and dump it into big white plastic bags. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Caesar had noticed the man before, strolling among the colored vendors and pausing by his crafts with a curious expression. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“Since you’ve got the license you can keep the restaurant open,” they said, “but you’ll need to have separate toilets for every racial category. You’ll need white toilets, black toilets, colored toilets, and Indian toilets.” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

We carried the tree home and decorated it with Grandma’s antique ornaments: ornate colored balls, fragile glass partridges, and lights with long tubes of bubbling water. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“What am I doing? I must be crazy, giving the sworn secrets a the colored race to a white lady.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

There came a time when my grandmother’s brothers sold my grandfather and four of his colored children into the very cotton fields he freed himself from.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Drove by and saw a rabid cat attacking a little colored girl. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Who cared what kind of “colored” the stewardess called us? P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

These and other questions need answering; I want to know, and I believe every colored American, who is thinking, wants to know.” Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

I have them here at my feet, bound with colored ribbons, divided according to events and not in chronological order, just as she arranged them before she left. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a small Texas town, they often did n’t have colored bathrooms or fountains either. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

After Henrietta checked into the hospital, a nurse drew blood and labeled the vial colored, then stored it in case Henrietta needed transfusions later. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“See, light-skinned colored people almost always marry light-skinned colored people on purpose. So they’ll have light-skinned kids.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

His parents give him an Instamatic camera, a new sketchbook, colored pencils and the mechanical pen he’d asked for, and twenty dollars to spend as he wishes. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t you two take your little colored selves outside and get those bush beans and collards in here before it gets dark,” Mama said, edging the book out from under their fingers. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Didn’t no white folk dare talk to him with that kind of tone down in South Carol-liney, and this colored man had the nerve? The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

“What do you think those are?” said Polly, pointing at the colored rings. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

“Do you remember when I invited that colored minister, Pastor George, to come speak at our church?” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another colored girl, younger, washes dishes at the sink. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“I did not raise you to use the colored bathroom!” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“Go check the street and see if them colored boys is laying in wait.” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

The colored man next to the professor waves at the crowd uncertainly. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

It was like the time he shouted “black girl” at my sisters and me, while we shouted back “colored girl.” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, fact is, it would have been easier for me to walk into a colored diner. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Apartheid said that the only reason colored people couldn’t have first-class status was because black people might use coloredness to sneak past the gates to enjoy the benefits of whiteness. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Pig balls were large colored balls; the pigs rolled them around with their snouts. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

She remembered the hunger she’d felt when Looper showed her the colored pencils. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She picks out a gorgeous book with colored pictures about English gardens. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

There were colored lights: red and green and yellow, twinkling from a tree which was, oddly, inside the room. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

History ain’t one of my favorite subjects, but I ain’t ever learned any history about colored folks being physicians and directors. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t unfriendly but wasn’t warm like the talk between two coloreds. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t imagine him going to a colored school, and maybe in Chicago he didn’t have to. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Your... father was white and your mother was... colored?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Past trays of bitter gourd, with knives and colored finger guards. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

One Sunday, we drive out to the beach and cut down a small sea grape tree, paint it white, and hang it with our lights that look like nose droppers filled with colored water. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

“A bill that requires every white home to have a separate bathroom for the colored help. I’ve even notified the surgeon general of Mississippi to see if he’ll endorse the idea. I pass.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

We’d noticed that after all the other students would leave, Sylvanus and the colored girl stayed and sat on a bench looking through books. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Each non-Jewish prisoner had a colored triangle by his number to denote his “crime.” Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

The room was cut in half by a long counter, cluttered with wire baskets full of papers and brightly colored flyers taped to its front. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“The radio said that colored boy’s mama up in Chicago is blaming everyone in Mississippi for what’s happened, said she said, ‘The entire state of Mississippi is going to pay for this.’ Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

She had colored her hands purple with washable markers that Gregor thought maybe a sandblaster could remove, and her diaper sagged down around her knees. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was their property, heart and soul, body and blood; what they did claimed every atom of him, sleeping and waking; it colored life and dictated the terms of death. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Ann Wilson was seated in the colored section of the nearly empty Trailways bus with two-year-old Lydia sprawled asleep across her lap. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Just a different color,’ say that little colored girl. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The fact to keep in mind is that in the 1950s “blacks” made up about 80 percent of the Jamaican population, outnumbering coloreds five to one. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Henry colored the water in her paper cup. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Some of the men were white and some were colored. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She has a very deep interest in colored people.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Listen, boy, you’re going to speak to both white and colored people that night. What can you alone think of saying to them? You have no experience . . .” I burned. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

A black administrator for the United States Employment Service echoed the concern: “There has not been a single vacant job in Chicago for a colored man.” A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Not enough colored schools around to play against.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I marvel at the women walking past who all wear such beautifully colored saris and make me feel as if I'm sitting in a rainbow. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

The rooms had a colored smell, and they were crowded with cut-out pictures on the walls and the lace table covers and lace pillows on the bed. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Was it possible that not only the doctors but everyone who ministered to the colored population was involved in this incredible scheme? The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

They were listed as colored and their parents were listed as colored, too. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Sewing Mistress approached, bearing a needle, an assortment of colored thread, and a round of white linen marked with a design of flowers. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

She could see the hollow in the huntress’s throat, now, where the collar of her shirt was open; her skin was colored gold in the candlelight. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

With his blond crew cut and clear blue eyes, he easily stood out from all the colored kids in the Perkins school library. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

There was a little colored girl on our favorite commercial who looked just like Fern. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few brightly colored shreds of cloth fluttered gaily where our tent had been. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

In the nights sometimes now he’d wake in the black and freezing waste out of softly colored worlds of human love, the songs of birds, the sun. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Other colored people hated me because of my whiteness. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Ah wanted to preach a great sermon about colored women sittin’ on high, but they wasn’t no pulpit for me. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Before us stood a mountain of a woman who looked even more imposing because of the brightly colored Hawaiian shift she wore. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Clusters of brightly colored balloons were tethered to the green-shaded lamps on the reading desks. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

She probably just likes how I colored the background. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Dorian’s face colored, but he did not drop his father’s stare. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“I had no idea they let colored people be in the Olympics.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

His wife won’t let him in the house when he’s drunk, so he goes over yonder and she sends a colored boy name Fish to see after him.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“If you stay here, those men are gonna come back and kill you. I’m serious. They’re gonna kill you, like those colored people in Mississippi got killed. Even T. Ray said so.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I say, Yessuh, and he say, Well, you better tell em he your high yellow cause that colored doctor won’t operate on a white boy in a Negro hospital. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

She sat at a loom the size of a big screen TV her hands weaving colored thread back and forth with amazing skill. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

He can paint in oil, since his expenses are reduced by living at home, but he also keeps drawing—in pencil, black chalk, and colored ink—and uses watercolor. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“No, Mr. Dalton. He talks just like all other colored folks to me.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

For extra money, they’d opened a “colored” convenience store where most customers paid in IOUs; they also ran an old cinderblock juke joint where Henrietta often danced on the red- dirt floor. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The first time I ever realized that a white woman keeping time with a colored man was cause for scandal, I was six or seven. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Bright colored lights sparkled from the trees, while storefronts competed with one another to be the most festive with their decorations. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Their legs were unrecognizable—weirdly colored, charred, and flaking. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

British ships in the nineteenth century radically transformed native art by giving the Indians brightly colored paints that unlike native pigments didn’t wash off in the rain. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Brightly colored couches—all red, gold, and white—and thick white rugs dot the living room space. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

"Your grandfather loved to see me in a brightly colored sari." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Like the street he lived on, recorded as Mains Avenue, but called Not Doctor Street by the Negroes in memory of his grandfather, who was the first colored man of consequence in that city. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the ceremony, he wore richly colored garments and a headdress with two golden-yellow feathers. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

He permanently borrowed about a dollar, enough to grab a few quarter waters—the colored sugar water sold in small plastic bottles at the corner store. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

We cross the bridge, head in the direction a the colored hospital, where the bus make its turn. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I want to stop that moment from coming—and it come in ever white child’s life—when they start to think that colored folks ain’t as good as whites. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The old colored man paused in taking a drink of his sweet tea and set the glass aside. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“Little colored girl say, ‘I got a nose, you got a nose.’ The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I had a white lady tell me once that blood looks redder on a colored person. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“My boys are opening up the armory next to the generator shack for everyone to equip themselves. Even the colored folks,” he says, giving me a pointed look. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Many of the small rectangles of fabric sewn by hand into interlocking circles have dissolved altogether, the ghostly remains of stitches holding snippets of colored cloth. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

I got the hospital number from Information and dialed it up, asking for the nurses’ station in the colored wing. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mess hall, gracefully festooned with flowers, streamers, and brightly colored ribbons, pulsed with celebration as the pilots and their wives gathered for the 187th birthday of the Marine Corps. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

"You got to be thinking ahead, Alfred. World is changing, opening up for colored people." The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a colored man sitting on the bank. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Hers was the twinkle and the laughter infectious as chickenpox, and hers the gaiety that colored a day and spread to people so that they carried it away with them. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Now, skirting the City, there were no green curtains; the whole car could be full of colored people and everybody on a first-come first-serve basis. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

They say a colored person can do well going there. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

The picture of the bear with a balloon, which had once been brightly colored, had faded so much it was hardly visible. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

There were some folks that didn’t like to see the colored traveling about. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Near the casket was an Arab nurse in a white smock, with a brightly colored scarf on her head. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

The cities are safe, the controlled territories are largely secure...Why should our citizens pay to educate colored boys and girls to do a job they’re already biologically equipped to do? Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I don’t want a think about a colored man dying. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

She tells me that I once commented that colored people attend too much church. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The man looked like someone you’d see on the street downtown, except instead of bills and coins in the instrument case, people had dropped little vials of colored powders and liquids. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

The third, a little girl dressed in something long and light colored, was allowed to fall to the ground and scramble away, ignored by the men. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

She rushed Louvenia to the colored hospital when the first call came about Robert and waited there six hours with her, until the operation was over. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

With no obvious provocation, he leaped down to the floor and bounced right out of the building like a bright- colored, fur-covered soccer ball. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

“Segregation of white and colored children in public schools has a detrimental effect upon colored children,” ruled the Court. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

One bewildered second later, Harry realized that the foot-long thing was Dudley’s tongue — and that a brightly colored toffee wrapper lay on the floor before him. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

They could see it was a magic pool: instead of reflecting the tree and the sky it revealed cloudy and colored shapes moving, always moving, in its depths. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

I enjoyed looking at the countryside, all colored for me by contrast with Haiti’s—the electric power wires, the irrigated fields. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Misery colored by the greens and blues in my mother’s voice took all of the grief out of the words and left me with a conviction that pain was not only endurable, it was sweet. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the other colored helpers, Clara, moves to their table, picks up a glass. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

When they did a lynching, they made us leave the body hanging, to put a terror in the colored folk. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rings set with colored stone flashed on his fingers. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Then she followed a nurse down a long hallway into the ward for colored women, where Howard Jones and several other white physicians ran more tests than she’d had in her entire life. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The frenzied fairies mobbed him again, and he lost his grip on the side, vanishing in another pulsing succession of colored flashes. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Even Amari, his drawing pad halfway out of his backpack, the colored markers gathered in their rubber band on his desk. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Add more colored paint, and the water remains just as intolerably gray. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

She liked that he wore their relationship so boldly, like a brightly colored shirt. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

It reported all the colored celebrity news and gossip and it was full of interesting pictures. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

"Oh, you know. The wise guys firing the regular guys and putting on you colored college boys. Pretty smart," he said. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The disquietude he felt on Katahdin’s granite heights inspired some of his most powerful writing and profoundly colored the way he thought thereafter about the earth in its coarse, undomesticated state. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we saw colored pictures of a Vermont autumn forest it was another fairy thing and we frankly didn’t believe it. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Is the neighborhood mostly white folk or colored?” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

They made little progress on a course of action, struggling with the problem of whom to turn to and the possible reaction from the other colored residents. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The front page of the Carolina Times had a story about a Negro college football coach who’d led his team to victory, and another about unfair treatment of colored workers in Raleigh. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Ain’t that awful. You sure pick up with fine friends, Ignatius. Them colored people already got it hard, boy. They got a hard road, too. Life’s hard, Ignatius. You’ll learn.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was the one who assured the colored maids we wouldn’t be found out, and I am the one responsible for this. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“Oh no — hang on —” A bag of sweets had spilled out of Fred’s pocket and the contents were now rolling in every direction — big, fat toffees in brightly colored wrappers. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Feel free to use the colored pencils or pastels too, he says. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I still remember, as it was uncommon for white folks to ride out to the colored farms. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although, Martin qualified, there was the case of a white farmer who had sheltered a gang of colored refugees. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The only thing colored folks hadn’t built was the tree. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The colored pencils were taken away by the staff when I wasn’t looking one day, leaving just plastic markers and soft pastels—things that don’t need to be sharpened. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Mama wore a long, crocheted, rose- colored dress. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But I never thought of the Virgin Mary being colored till I saw this picture.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the floor there were packages wrapped in brightly colored paper and tied with gleaming ribbons. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

In South Africa, everyone knows that colored gangsters are the most ruthless, the most savage. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Just watching made me realize how hungry I was, and I figured if no one else was worried about colored or white, I wouldn't either. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

During the day, it was filled with colored tents and vendors of all sorts, but at night the barges were flat deserted spaces strewn with bits of trash and rotting fruit rinds. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The bus cross the bridge and make the first stop in the colored neighborhood. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

She points to the stack of curly “papyrus,” markers, and colored pencils near her desk and hands us a copy of the codes to use like a Rosetta stone. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

But they also made useful and beautiful goods—copper kettles, glittering colored glass, and steel knives and hatchets—unlike anything else in New England. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The lemon- colored Cadillac was all we had left of Milton. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

There were a couple of cafes down the way, but any colored man understood that question to be “a restaurant that will serve to colored?” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

That afternoon the big fans were still churning the thick air in the courtroom and the jurors’ brighdy colored fans were all moving in unison. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Because of my color, they thought I was a colored person, but speaking the same languages meant that I belonged to their tribe. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

She reached into another bag and brought out a tangle of wildly colored tutus, several pairs of black tights, and some turtle-green socks. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

A long coat, vanilla colored with dark brown cuffs and collar, is folded neatly beside him. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Passengers spilled out, carrying their folded newspapers and canvas weekend bags and brightly colored coats. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

When we didn’t have a colored woman to walk with us, my mom would risk walking me on her own. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

She charts sequences and events with colored pencils, shuffling her diagrams until they start to make sense, a possible narrative. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Looking at the mother, I assume she feels happy and joyful wearing her colored clothes. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was quiet, looking at the different colored lights that hung at the entrance. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“He’s just a quiet colored boy. That’s all I can say. . . .” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Billy’s dad had been cut off in 1957, but had stuck around by claiming an old shack above where the colored people lived in Snakeroot. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

If I feel ragged, my prep team seems in worse condition, knocking back coffee and sharing brightly colored little pills. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

To Mrs. McCullough, she looked impossibly tiny, impossibly rose colored, impossibly glossy and smooth, like something blown from pink glass. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Perhaps it is due to complex brightly colored organic molecules produced when ultraviolet light from the Sun breaks down the methane, ammonia, and water in the Jovian atmosphere and the molecular fragments recombine. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

If she had been born colored, not a soul would of hired her to clean up or cook, either one. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“Half this stuff don’t have nothing to do with colored rights. Ain’t but day-to-day business.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“Whenever I ask my folks, my father turns me off by saying I’m weak—that I’m a you-know-what lover. He says colored folks are used to doing without, and I ought not spoil them.” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It looked out on the green, the colored population’s park. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

But, of course, that wasn’t open to the colored. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know what you talking about. You’re not talking about coloreds are you?” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

From the lookout, they could also see the colored clay cliffs of Moshup Beach, but you couldn’t get down to the water without a hot walk of about half a mile. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

My half-sisters wore rose- colored tunics and so did their mothers, my father’s concubines. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well,” she exclaimed, “the colored dishwasher reads the American Mercury/” She walked away, shaking her head. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dollops of glue land on colored paper, and fingers form loop after loop. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

They were pasting a huge colored poster to a signboard. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then she saw all of the colored people standing up in the back of the courtroom. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Tears rolled down her cheeks, and her voice trembled as she said, “If the Illinois women do not take a stand now in this great democratic parade then the colored women are lost.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The ones from the colored schoolhouse were well-thumbed and she had to squeeze her letters above and in between other people’s scribblings, but there was no whipping attached just for looking at it. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

It still had a brightly colored paper dust jacket with a picture that Meggie couldn’t make out from a distance. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The more Ophie thought about it, the harder it seemed to be colored, to have to think before doing anything, to wonder if the white folks looking at her meant her harm. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

When I came home and our troop train got to the southern states, I had to leave and switch to the colored cars. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The world saw me as colored, but I didn’t spend my life looking at myself. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Three teenaged colored boys stood on the sidewalk, drinking R.C. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’ll get to read everything we—” “What makes you think colored people need your help?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

A group in Summerton, South Carolina, had sued their school board in order to get better buses and facilities for the colored students—something equal to the white students. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Tessie, tell Milt to get down to the restaurant. The coloreds are rioting!” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“There wasn’t another colored family for miles around. And now there ain’t a colored man on this ranch an’ there’s jus’ one family in Soledad.” Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only two passenger cars, and no colored allowed. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Levi Jackson was the “first colored boy in history” to win the peninsulas soap box derby. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

On the outside there was a border of flowers and vines made from bits of colored glass set into a lead frame. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wears a dark jacket and a tie with colored circles on it. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

“I’m looking for my aunt. I could have sworn they told me Room One-oh-two, but there’s a colored woman in there.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They say his sister lives here, and he’s coming to visit and intends to take this colored woman to the movie theater this Friday. Not to the balcony, but downstairs in the white section.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly a group of colored men came into the room, walked over to Shadrach, and surrounded him. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the platform, a group of about twenty people in brightly colored skintight bodysuits materializes. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

The colored girl wore a dress made of calico, old-fashioned and ugly. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Directly in front of us are a few of Baltimore's educated colored men, who teach at the city college for Negroes. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Actually, some of the colored just stayed in the service: A few of the colored units were kept going and it was a paying job. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When slavery was over, colored could go to church. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Farther up on the green stood a tall brown Victorian house, quiet in the sunlight, all covered with scrolls and rococo, its windows made of blue and pink and yellow and green colored glass. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The colored engineer waved back at them from his cabin, grinning toothlessly. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Red’s was the only colored saloon in the town proper; the proprietor got a break on the rent for a watchful eye. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“They don’t have no colored sections. I could go to any restaurant and sit wherever I wanted! “They had drinking fountains all through the city. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They passed through a bazaar in a cavernous building whose latticework ceiling was home to a thou-sand gaily colored birds. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Over the mantel was a small photograph of Baby and a colored picture of a little boy in velvet holding a ball in his hands. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

From the top, I could see the sprawl of people selling oranges, avocados, packets of nuts on brightly colored pieces of material or small cardboard tables made from overturned boxes. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

How could a colored man be a doctor? The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

White peoples with guns, pointed at colored peoples. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Some of the Dauntless have started to mark the walls with colored squares. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

And I suddenly realized: it was Friday, and they were out here waiting for Jack Palance and the colored woman. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was also a photograph of people protesting that I wanted to get a better look at They were people carrying the same kind of signs that we had colored in. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the middle, in an ornamented sedan chair carried by four people, sat a woman, the mistress, on red cushions beneath a colored awning. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

A visitor sees twisting streets, tidy clapboard houses with colored roofs, shops for tourists and locals, and people dressed in boots, parkas, scarves, and woolen hats pulled over their ears. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Silently she handed her sister the leftover white rice-powder paste, the brushes, the colored paints made from burnt earth, lentils, and spices. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

I draw them, delineating the structures with different colored pencils, though I can never get the same luminous brillance. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

With no one else available, Royal’s superiors reluctantly sent the two colored agents deep into the Tennessee badlands. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The gifts he would carry were wrapped in colored tissue paper—and in addition there was a deluxe basket of fruits done up in cellophane and a crate of late-shipped strawberries. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Yet I am neither thrilled nor disappointed by the news that they might let a colored man into Ole Miss, just surprised. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“If the national association has decided it is unwise to include the colored women, I think we should abide by its decision.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

In between, in the midst of all those steaming nights and days darkly colored, smelling of earth, I believe there lay some marrow of honest instruction. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The band closed with spirited renditions of two colored songs Cora recognized, which proved the most popular of the night. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Red was across the street, watching a colored man who was cleaning up after the parade, sweeping trash into a pile. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mind jumped back to the kids outside, to the colored X’s on the back of their shirts. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Norma was lighter, rust colored, and not as pale as Mami, whose skin was pink. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“I’m... the one writing about the colored women? In Mississippi?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“I colored it myself today. I was at the drugstore buying ice—did you know that I only like store-bought ice? Homemade ice tastes funny and makes my tea smell strange.” Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

A smoke- colored cat curled itself around my ankles, its tail in the shape of a question mark. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite their youth, the colored boys joined the grisly gallery on the Freedom Trail. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Just before he left I heard some colored man bought it.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Back then the shelves had been crowded with colored glass jars, wooden boxes, casks, and bags, all labeled with the spidery handwriting of Mr. Barrett. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Was that why Mrs. Caruthers didn’t like having a colored maid, because she wanted the white maid she’d had once upon a time? Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“Fine, but that’s the end of it. Tell that colored boy the twins are always trailing behind to pay it for you.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I took a seat in the colored section. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were so many of them, but the colored man was all by himself, had no one to protect him. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Now those fountains were the same; only the colored fountain, they never cleaned and kept up. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The carpenters—and a lot of those jobs were filled by colored people.” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

On his way back, his arms wrapped around a bundle of brightly colored cotton and silk fabric, he bumped into Booth. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I gave each of my brothers a bookmark of a waving Texas flag that I’d inked and colored myself. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

That’s how I learned about eyes, sky, and ocean: the three special, deep, colored, see-through things. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

‘Give me your pretty colored chalk. I promise a big crowd.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I colored the background in pretty shades of blue and green. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

‘You know good and well my Father is a colored doctor right here in town.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I helped Papi string colored lights across the yard, and we decorated an eggplant bush with crêpe paper flowers and cutout figures. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The latest hair trends are adding colored highlights, or mixing hair colors like black and red. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Afterward, Daddy would let me go in the colored store for a cold drink and sucking candy. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I also have a white plastic sunglasses case with colored shells and sequins and a green plastic starfish sewed onto it. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

There were shortcuts, but Bessie liked to take in the lively activity of Main Street in the evening, mingling with the townsfolk, white and colored. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The horse was barded in bronze- colored trappings dyed to match the rider's cloak and emblazoned with the burning tree. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She drew and colored a picture of five guys with Afros and glued that over the dill pickle label. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Ah reckon if colored folks got they own town they kin have post offices and whatsoever they please, regardless. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Willie, the colored boy in the kitchen, stood before him dressed in his cap and his long white apron. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Then, from the far end of the platform, he heard a sound of running; and, looking up, he saw two colored boys come running down the steps. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

He could still see the colored stitches, but it was a simple—exquisitely beautiful, but simple—landscape again. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

So take a friendly advice and go easy so that you can keep on helping the colored people. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Wha happen up there?” colored man in front a me call to the driver. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I turned away and looked out the window, where there was nothing but fields and now and then a falling-down wooden barn or some old, abandoned colored house. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

And of course whites could be demoted to colored as well. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Don’t tell me Sheriff Smith never said nothing to you about the trial they’re fixing to have up in Sumner? You know, ’bout that colored boy that got himself kidnapped and killed?” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

I could tell the spirit was on Loomis to help us out, but he knew white folks’ funerals aren’t like colored funerals. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“Hast thou ever heard slave owners talk? They use that phrase to say the colored men are constitutionally unfit to mingle with whites.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

I could see a group of colored and white running across the yard. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A colored woman in a white uniform nods to us. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

She had avoided the services at the colored churches in town. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I rearrange my tiles, sequences of bamboo and balls, doubles of colored number tiles, odd tiles that do not fit anywhere. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

And how I told him don’t drink coffee or he gone turn colored. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The Great Migration, in which Black folks took any opportunity to flee old Jim Crow and the terror of the Klan, meant that more colored folks were pouring in to the city every day. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Some of the houses were decked out in colored lights, and one had a wooden model of a bearded man in a cart pulled by eight antelope. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

With a colored man, it probably never even crossed their minds. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In very halting demonic, I told them about the waters of the Pearl River: thick and milky and colored a reddish yellow like the color of sunset distilled from the air. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

It ain’t hard to imagine Ida pretending to be just another dumb colored girl in order to make it out here. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

"Kabir," she asks me now, "remember what I told you about caterpillars bursting out of cocoons, all rainbow colored?" Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

In the early 1960s, the bus desegregation law had been passed, but the “coloreds” signs still hung prominently in the back of buses. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I’d always been colored, but now I saw the walls that came along with it. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Plastic toys, colored little balls, and fountain pens charged with explosives.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I could speak perfect English, and I barely spoke Afrikaans, the language colored people were supposed to speak. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

"Way down in Egypt's land. Tell dat ole Pharaoh to let ma colored folks sing! I'm for the rights of the colored brother to sing!" he shouted belligerently. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she squeezed the bright yellow milk into the churn, where it colored all the cream. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

She obeyed, her gaze fixed on the golden wedgies that slapped the bottom of the woman’s bulging feet as she led the way through a curtain of colored beads to the piano. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

Fern’s eyes twinkled as she imagined having a colored fairy mother. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The secular calendar whirled like a carnival wheel and offered carnival prizes—a fat Santa instead of the infant God; colored eggs and chocolate bunnies instead of the death and resurrection of Christ. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the other end, the builders had made a waterfall through which shone different colored lights. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know if that was the difference between white and colored or how the rich and the poor lived. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some colored people hated me because of my blackness. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

At Bethune, the colored high school he went to, all the tenth, eleventh, and twelfth graders—about twenty of them—were housed in the same little room near the entrance. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even the darkness couldn’t hide the blush that colored his cheeks. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Three weeks after V-J Day, the Norfolk Journal and Guide reported layoffs of 1,500 Newport News shipyard workers and a “decrease for women workers, both white and colored.” Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Two sets of colored people sit on porches, watching, rocking. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

She looked down and said, “There aren’t any colored parts in this play. Don’t you know that?” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

I know that had to he true for all the colored boys when they came home, but I felt bad for Junior after all he had done. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I slid into the seat behind her, I saw that she had already arranged her colored pens in a neat row above her notebook. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Their wings came in all varieties, mostly patterned after butterflies, but much more elegantly shaped and radiantly colored. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

We made drawing after drawing on it by filling in the tiny squares with colored pencil to make pixelated portraits. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

He colored in an entire meadow with green. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This is a WG Panther. It’s an airsoft gun, which means it’s nothing but a toy. Look, the orange tip is colored black with a Sharpie.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

It seemed every single colored man, woman, and child in town was walking up the road and convening in her front yard. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

There were just nine colored women out there, the same nine that had been in the other one. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Next to him sat a man with suspicious gray eyes and a liver- colored coat with a double row of gold buttons fastened over a large pudding-belly. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

No judge would even listen to a colored man. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In his parents’ parlor to an audience of distinguished Bostonians, then in the homes of those distinguished Bostonians, in colored meeting houses and Methodist churches and lecture halls throughout New England. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Ma was right, the best these colored folk could do is imitate white people. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Her hijabs are always brightly colored, with flowers or geometrical designs. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Any colored person could tell right off she was one of them. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

A white cardboard sign on a table in the back of the cafeteria beckoned them, its crisply stenciled black letters spelling out the lunchroom hierarchy: colored computers. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

They were all waving and twiddling their wands in unison, and squares of colored paper were flying in every direction like little pink kites. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

That his best friend was a woman, an architect with a long straight weave who wore high heels and tight jeans and colored contact lenses, said something about Blaine that Ifemelu liked. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Wavy, colored hippie writing all over, since she was free to do what she wanted in her own house. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were the stories of all the colored people she had ever known, the stories of black people yet to be born, the foundations of their triumphs. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

It was well decorated with sweet pictures on the wall, leather seats with gold upholstery tacks, and brightly colored pillows scattered among the couches and chairs. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

They are beautifully iced with softly colored flowers. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

They carry ponchos, duffels, crates; a few tote brightly colored suitcases claimed from who knows where. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

That fine spiritual fruit of honest toil, well expressed in the adage, “Live and let live,” has characterized the attitude of the leading white men toward the colored race. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I reason I will get to stand before Jesus with all my childrens and grandchildrens and great-grandchildrens and kinfolks and friends and I say to him, “Jesus Christ, us is all sad colored peoples.” The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Now the house belonged to a colored man named Morrison. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

They was good, but I couldn’t help but wonder that my brother Johnny, if he wasn’t colored, could be a big help on the mound. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And the KKK? They get a report of any colored person who tries to register to vote. You want that hammer hangin’ over your family?” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

At that time, swimming pools, like everything else, were designated “whites only” or “coloreds.” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Scraps of paper, driver’s licenses, receipts, grocery lists, drawings in crayon and colored pencil, school pictures. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Beautifully colored, if this can be said, the blackness of her hair, the faint blush of her cheek, her lips. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Me and Leo share a box of colored pencils. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Someone yelled, “Them colored boys cheated, didn’t they?” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

‘Will colored Americans suffer still the indignities that have been heaped upon them in the past?’ Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

There were only about two or three dozen brightly colored jelly beans sealed inside. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Ahead there’s a scatter of flyers on the bulletin board, and the doorway to the gym is surrounded with colored streamers and twinkly white Christmas lights. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But Aibileen ’—Miss Hilly smile real cold—“colored people and white people are just so... different.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I stared at the different colored vegetables in front of me. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Red sped off, almost hitting one of the colored women who worked in the cafeteria and was trying to cross the street. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later, in her bedroom, with Poppy asleep, she took the two colored pencils from her pocket. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

None of us is pure colored and the word you all the time using haves a way of hurting people’s feelings.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“I mean what I say: I don’t want to hear about you two causing a stir, having the world looking at three colored girls, wondering where their father and mother are.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

As we entered, I had seen the balloons and brightly colored paper hats. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

For the purposes of the state, colored people became the almost-whites. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

We bought our children balloons and colored ribbons, purchased sweetmeats by the kilo, paid calls in taxis to relatives we had not seen throughout the year. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Two happy hearts soared like colored kites in a skyblue sky. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So? We don't know for a fact that they don’t hire colored.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

The discard box was large, and it was quickly filled with toiletries that contained alcohol; clothing colored blue, black, gray, or orange; packages of food that hadn’t been factory-sealed; and . . . cigarettes. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then I notice that the brightly colored mural behind Hideo is moving, as if the painting were alive, the colors swirling and shifting in a spectacular display. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Inside the box were at least a dozen colored pencils—red, green, blue, yellow, purple, orange. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Nobody mentioned that all my life I had been her colored boy. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The colored rest rooms, they didn’t bother with them, seemed like they hardly ever cleaned them for us. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A Dreft commercial comes on and Miss Celia stares out the back window at the colored man raking up the leaves. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The colored man said, “Maybe not. How much you willing to pay for information on two more?” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

She wanted to throw down the colored pencils and stomp on them. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“I don’t like that word, remember? Try calling me black or Negro or even colored.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

He was up on the loading platform with some other colored men, all of them grinning big and waving to friends, white and colored. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Just over there was the colored part of the cemetery. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

But there was only the one grocer here as far as she knew, and the man had told her plain enough to come back during colored hours. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

We figured that that was how the commercial people told her to say it Not too colored. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our own generals didn’t believe in the coloreds as soldiers then. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I’d be engaged to Stuart and I wouldn’t wear short dresses, only short hair, or consider doing anything risky like write a book about colored housekeepers, too afraid he’d disapprove. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

But I knew she was big, as in tall, and Hershey colored like me. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

We cut the small colored figures out of them and paste them into scrapbooks. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

After all, the specter of colored rebellion, all those angry dark faces surrounding them, had stirred white settlers to leave the south. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He pulled up a blank page with colored squares lining the side. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

To hear her tell it you would think that colored farm was the very White House itself. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Back in the 1920s that would have been white news. It had nothing to do with the colored.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Again the smell of the warm rain came in, and a burst of wind, so that a little breath seemed to move across the statue, and light touched the colored walls. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, Lily said, “Did you tell my sister that she couldn't come to your house because no colored people are allowed?” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Some people now have colored refrigerators, pale-green or pink, but I don’t like these colors and I’m pleased that Cordelia’s mother doesn’t either. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Erin held up an orange beach pail three-quarters filled with brightly colored phones and keys. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

It was night time when we returned, however, and the place was garish in colored lights. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s odd. A hundred years ago the gentlemen had colored women, now the trash have them.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

In the colored part of the cemetery, they sank Chicken Little in between his grandfather and an aunt. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the girls stayed in the night before the social, but some of the younger ones were going out to the colored saloon that had recently opened. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Lately, things hadn’t been too good in the county for the colored. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As they opened the door marked colored only, they saw a white conductor coming toward them. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The long streaks of yellow light lay between the shadows of the tree trunks, and the snow was colored faintly pink. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are several dozen made-up names, both white and colored, and at times, it is hard to keep them all straight. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Translation: Anything would be better than you staying in a colored house. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

A colored man named Henry had started a white barbershop in Cold Sassy a few years back, but these old fellers liked the drug store better. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

This where the white lady get the old-timer disease and call the police department ever morning cause a colored woman just walked in her house. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The drawing room on the second floor wasn’t a room where folks sat with paints and colored chalk to draw pictures, like I’d figured. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ophie was overwhelmed by all there was to look at: the finely dressed colored folks, the heavy drapes that made the space feel grand and special, the wide white screen waiting for the film. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

She held him off but could not deny that Mudgett aroused within her an intensity of desire that colored her dreams. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Every white woman I’ve ever worked for ate in the dining room as far away from the colored help as they could. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

In it were larks and a rabbit seasoned with herbs and colored yellow with saffron. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

All he could do to keep down fights and get the white men out of colored town by nine o’clock. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Alone, each of my colored pencils would be too bright, but blended, I could make it look real. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

My uncle Henry always said, “A white man enjoys his success, a colored man has to pay for it.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s good. Well, you’re in Ohio now. There’s no colored and there’s no white train. There’s just a train. Come on with me. Where you going?” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, how do colored people get where they want to go?” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

We pass rows of pictures of colored people in frames like the ones in Miss Fulton’s apartment. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

There was two colored boys sitting out front of the place and I axed ’em, “What’s the name of this here shop?” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

I let their colored memories draw me out of my own miserable life. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Zola thinks about this, and then she goes away and later that day she brings to me a poppet dolly that she has made out of a dish towel and many colored ribbons. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

Hundreds of colored balloons are tethered down behind me, baking in the June sun. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I laughed the way white folks always do when they tell something funny a colored person said. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

But there was a man named Luther wouldn’t believe that I could know anything, me being a colored man. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Growing up in Marshall, 1 never would of done that whether it was a colored or a white man. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most people don’t know this, but I seen more than a few colored cowboys. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ice, they said, but really because it was colored people calling. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Things that people have touched, such as parking meters and door handles, all have colored smears on them. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

“The colored men backed off and I did too, but the white man stood there, looking down, and grinned. Uncle Willie, why do they hate us so much?” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The whites frequently walk into colored rest rooms, Scotch-tape these notices to the wall. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Books shall not be interchangeable between the white and colored schools, but shall continue to be used by the race first using them. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

His costume was similarly colored, but his sleeves were long and his wide trousers reached to midcalf. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

But I am surprised myself by what’s in these stories, of separate colored refrigerators at the governor’s mansion, of white women throwing two-year-old fits over wrinkled napkins, white babies calling Aibileen “Mama.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“You got it! You are a very smart little colored boy. And I am going to tell Oxford University about you.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you know what the Ku Kluxers do to colored people?” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Without them, you wouldn’t have your bottled vitamin water, your eye shadows, the packaging on your favorite perfume, your colored contact lenses, clothes, hair color, and nail polish.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“Look, Bigger. We want one of those places where colored people eat, not one of those show places.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

There was a slow colored song in her mind—one Portia’s brother used to play on his harp. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Before she could change her mind, Ivy colored in the girls. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Yankee women do work like that, and colored women, and tenant farmers’ wives and daughters. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I didn’t feel angry or inferior because I had to use the toilets that were marked “coloreds.” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Now you sit up at the counter cause you’re at the Wool- worfs and you’re colored. And you got to stay there no matter what I do or you go to jail.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

"You friends to one of those colored fellows?" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their only respect was for what they would have described as “good Christian colored women.” The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

For centuries colored people were told: Blacks are monkeys. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Before they went to bed, Mo pulled back the curtains so they could see it—a brightly colored Chinese lantern among all the white stars. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“When freedom came. All the colored people in the state had to register with the Freedmen’s Bureau.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It is time for Illinois to recognize the colored women as a political equal,” said the president of the Illinois Equal Suffrage Association. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

It was like the bus—officially, anyone could sit anywhere they wanted now, but most of the time, the colored folks stayed to the back. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Breakfast was eggnog and hot tea and cookies and carols and colored lights and love. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

But sounds to me like that means it’s a colored library. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

Some of them are black-and-white and some are colored. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

A colored man floats down out of the sky blowing a saxophone, and below him, in the space between two buildings, a girl talks earnestly to a man in a straw hat. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he leaves, I resolve that, if and when I get out of here, I’m going to buy him an expensive silk tie covered with brightly colored birds. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“Can we go to the mall later? I need some new colored pencils. My crimson and indigo are only about two inches long now, and I’d love more greens.” Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Queen would walk next to me and act like she was my mother, and my mother would walk a few steps behind, like she was the maid working for the colored woman. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He had colored one pink and one blue. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lady opened her pocketbook, took out a red leather change purse, and scooted coins around, searching for the right amount for adorable, well-behaved colored dolls. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their melodies were bland in comparison to those of the colored musicians she’d heard, on Randall and off, but the townspeople enjoyed the denatured rhythms. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Caesar was like no colored man she had ever met. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

‘Who was the tall, thin colored man that just come out of here?’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Two pitchers of water sit at either end, with brightly colored Dixie cups stacked up beside them. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The large, round, colored pumpkins made beautiful chairs and tables. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were a few couples already dancing under the rose- colored lights. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He read this book call Invisible Man. When he done, he say he gone write down what it was like to be colored working for a white man in Mississippi.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

We had colored kids and Indian kids, and even a handful of Chinese kids, too. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The light flowed across the bar, scattered a thousand tiny rainbow beginnings from the colored bottles, and climbed the wall toward the sword, as if searching for one final beginning. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Ma liked everything on her table to be pretty, so in the wintertime she colored the butter. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s impressive, for sure,” my mom said, while I watched Abby trot away down the brightly colored hallway of the children’s ward, disappearing around a corner. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Even though Miss Ella Pearl, Miss Trotter’s mother, was as colored as my mother, she told the census taker to write ‘Indian.’ Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

We stop in front of a big tropical fish tank, and it takes everything in me to look away from her at the brightly colored fish behind the glass. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Through our conversation it came up that I spoke several African languages, and Theesan thought a colored kid speaking black languages was the most amazing trick. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Wash was so busy finding ways to be with Naomi that he all but forgot the scheme to get money to improve the colored school. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

She found a crèche in a colored area where she could leave me while she was at work. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

In a pavilion of colored silk, the Elf King was being dressed for his meeting by fifteen servants. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

The same tall trees, the same brightly colored flowers, the same tropical fish tank right by the doors, where Poe and I got in trouble with Barb for throwing donut crumbs to the fish. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Then, just before the War, whole blocks was let to colored. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Colored,” Fern said, because Big Ma preferred to be called “colored.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

I know what things were like before the War between the States, and even though the years after were chaotic, at least colored folks like me were free. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

To break that rule was unforgivable and could cost a colored man his life. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I say what I know she want to hear: “I use my colored bathroom from now on. And then I go on and Clorox the white bathroom again real good.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Dad compromised by taking moving pictures of each of us, first with colored fingers practicing on the paper diagrams and then actually working on the typewriter. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

The front door of the library opened, and a couple of colored girls walked in. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I heard him ask the attendant, “Where the colored rest room at?” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

That his intentions were honorable and that he himself was certainly worthy of the doctor’s consideration as a gentleman friend for Miss Foster since, at twenty-five, he was already a colored man of property. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

With the last of her meager salary she had bought her daughter small presents wrapped in brown paper with colored paper hearts pasted on. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Take Willie and me. Us aren’t all the way colored. Our Mama was real light and both of us haves a good deal of white folks’ blood in us. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

A nurse led them through the colored ward, past rows of hospital beds to the one where Henrietta lay. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

A car full of young colored men drove slowly by. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

She didn't want Maisie to see the colored pencils and clean paper. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

I guess poor white and poor colored had enough in common with just being poor. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were no colored students at the junior highs or elementary schools. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He told me how all of the white men in the region craved colored girls. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d heard of them but had never witnessed their travesties; the colored evening at the theater in South Carolina offered different fare. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

It would eventually fade away completely, but for a little while, when I was back at Jawad Sahib’s estate, these hands would remain colored with the memory of this night. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He was making fun of his wife, but Obinze knew, from the muted awe in his tone, that it was mockery colored by respect, mockery of what he believed, despite himself, to be inherently superior. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

My dreams are brightly colored and without sound. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

My report card was a mess of brightly colored red marks and circled grades. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Shoot, I even been hearing Jesus had colored skin living out there in the desert. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The blind man’s bird was marvelously colored, as if it had flown through a rainbow and been stained by the colors. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

I heard one of the generals say that he never saw no unit, white or colored, fight as fierce as we did. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s not colored yet, and the pencil lines are thin and barely visible. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

And yet there was such color and sound, such life: wren men with their caged birds, dream men blowing colored dust, children with their shoe harps making music just by running. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

At seven on the dot, couples begin drifting through the front doors, handing their furs and overcoats to the colored men in gray morning suits. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Some day, Miss Lucy told Cora one afternoon while they walked the green, all the numbers and figures and notes would make a great contribution to their understanding of colored life. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I didn't know if she was talking about the colored people or the police. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Then huge turkey cutouts were hung up, colored with crayons, brown and black and bright red. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Each week, Jet magazine pointed out all the shows with colored people. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she’d told our mother about her plan, our mother had said, “They won’t hire you. They don’t hire colored there.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Colored was a concept created during the apartheid era to further isolate the races—coloreds received more privileges than blacks did. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Three miles over the Pennsylvania border they risked a visit to the cottage of a colored farmer. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

At the same time, brightly colored marbles appear, hovering over many of the isles. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Pray up to the plaster Jesus in rose- colored robes, his arms reaching out? Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Pens and colored pencils held together with a rubber band. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

I don’t know if that was a coincidence or not, but it’s funny because colored people in South Africa are known for loving fancy cars. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He takes a blue pencil and draws little colored dots and lines that make the eyes look deep and textured and full. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z