1947 S. Lewis Kingsblood Royal (2001) 5: A nigger hash-hustler in a dump like this making like he was at the Ritz!at make like (a)..., v.
1947 S. Lewis Kingsblood Royal (2001) 251: Then I realized that I’m married to a Negro, that I’m up against it. Oh, dear God!at up against, phr.
1947 S. Lewis Kingsblood Royal (2001) 122: I think you may say I’m an out-and-out Liberal.at out-and-out, adj.
1947 S. Lewis Kingsblood Royal (2001) 133: He had bought a two-room shack where he ‘bached it’.at bach (it), v.
1947 S. Lewis Kingsblood Royal (2001) 31: I keep telling these colored agitators [...] that they do more harm to my race than any mean buckra.at backra, n.
1947 S. Lewis Kingsblood Royal (2001) 159: He was the owner and chief ballyhooer of a vast shed down on South Champlain Avenue and East Winchell Street.at ballyhoo, v.
1947 S. Lewis Kingsblood Royal (2001) 108: He would not jimcrow it and bar out Negro customers.at bar, v.1
1947 S. Lewis Kingsblood Royal (2001) 205: On the field of honor, those bellyachers can’t take it.at belly-acher (n.) under bellyache, v.
1947 S. Lewis Kingsblood Royal (2001) 169: This ain’t any sermon that I’m going to give you! It’s a plain bellyache!at bellyache, n.
1947 S. Lewis Kingsblood Royal (2001) 226: Any failure now on the part of your ‘better half’ to earn a living will, as hitherto, be compensated for by the charity handed out by your [...] Papa.at better half, n.
1947 S. Lewis Kingsblood Royal (2001) 135: I like the white fellows I work with better than the biggerty guys Miss Sophie talks about.at biggity, adj.
1947 S. Lewis Kingsblood Royal (2001) 136: [of men] The reason for segregation is that otherwise the blues would marry all the white women.at blue, n.1
1947 S. Lewis Kingsblood Royal (2001) 81: I heard it from some pretty high-ranking brass on the Other Side.at brass, n.1
1947 S. Lewis Kingsblood Royal (2001) 25: I thought they’d slink off repentantly in his car (which is quite a bus, by the way).at bus, n.2
1947 S. Lewis Kingsblood Royal (2001) 231: So obliging in their butterfingered offers to take from her a burden of sorrow that neither of them could understand.at butterfingers (n.) under butter, n.1
1947 S. Lewis Kingsblood Royal (2001) 185: I’d like to hang every buttinsky that helps any nigger to go to college.at buttinski, n.
1947 S. Lewis Kingsblood Royal (2001) 224: Now they caught you with your pants down and you are nothing but a nigger.at catch someone with their pants down (v.) under catch, v.1
1947 S. Lewis Kingsblood Royal (2001) 136: Most of us sables would rather marry a gal like Sophie than a chalkette.at chalk, n.3
1947 S. Lewis Kingsblood Royal (2001) 109: I never have thought of coming out as a Negro.at come out, v.
1947 S. Lewis Kingsblood Royal (2001) 237: The Deep South had again seceded from the American Constitution, and this time they were supported by more Northern Copperheads.at copperhead, n.
1947 S. Lewis Kingsblood Royal (2001) 91: Dis-here congoleum of crapshooters is powuhful lakly to perish in dat ole lake of fire.at crap shooter (n.) under crap, n.1
1947 S. Lewis Kingsblood Royal (2001) 125: His mission now was [...] to bedevil white college presidents who approved of jimcrowing.at Jim Crow, v.
1947 S. Lewis Kingsblood Royal (2001) 66: He belonged with the other lepers in a day-coach – in a Southern jimcrow day-coach. [Ibid.] 121: There is no reason under heaven why American citizens should be compelled to travel in jimcrow cars.at Jim Crow, adj.
1947 S. Lewis Kingsblood Royal (2001) 230: The way Neil was cutting up may have had a bad effect on the old man.at cut up, v.1
1947 S. Lewis Kingsblood Royal (2001) 292: The white folks are disgusted with these rug-cutters and slick-chicks that try to act like they’re the same as white folks.at rug cutter, n.