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Autobiog. of an Ex-Coloured Man (1927) 81: The effort is sometimes made to convey the impression that the better class of coloured people fight against riding in ‘Jim Crow’ cars because they want to ride with white people.at Jim Crow, adj.
Autobiog. of an Ex-Coloured Man (1927) 81: The effort is sometimes made to convey the impression that the better class of coloured people fight against riding in ‘Jim Crow’ cars because they want to ride with white people. Autobiog. of an Ex-Coloured Man (1927) 167: Log-cabins and plantations and dialect-speaking ‘darkies’ are perhaps better known in American literature than any other single picture of our national life.at darkie, n.
Autobiog. of an Ex-Coloured Man (1927) 107: It was made up of variety performers and others who delineated ‘darky characters’.at darkie, adj.
Autobiog. of an Ex-Coloured Man (1927) 58: I then drew from under the pillow my precious roll of greenbacks.at greenback, n.
Autobiog. of an Ex-Coloured Man (1927) 92: I noticed that among this class of coloured men the word ‘nigger’ was freely used in about the same sense as the word ‘fellow,’ and sometimes as a term of almost endearment.at nigger, n.1
Autobiog. of an Ex-Coloured Man (1927) 116: Among the other white ‘slummers’ there came into the ‘Club’ one night a clean-cut, slender, but athletic-looking man.at slummer, n.
Autobiog. of an Ex-Coloured Man (1927) 139: I think I heard more and more different kinds of slang during my few weeks’ stay in London than in my whole ‘tenderloin’ life in New York.at tenderloin, n.
‘Introduction’ in Autobiog. of an Ex-Coloured Man (1912/1927) viii : That he ‘passes’ the title indicates.at pass, v.
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