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A Man called White, the autobiography of Walter White choose

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[UK] (ref. to 1931) W. White A Man Called White 125: One of the white men, thoroughly impregnated with jimcrowism [...] shouted, ‘You niggers get out of here!’.
at Jim Crow, n.
[UK] W. White A Man Called White 106: The American Federation of Labor had also protested Parkers confirmation because of decisions he had rendered in upholding so-called ‘yellow-dog’ contracts.
at yellow dog contract (n.) under yellow dog, n.
[UK] (ref. to 1929) W. White A Man Called White 104: His attitude to Negroes caused me to coin a phrase which gained considerable currency, particularly in the Negro world, in which I described Hoover as ‘the man in the lily-White House’.
at lilywhite, adj.
[UK] (ref. to 1944) W. White A Man Called White 279: [in Guam] Stones, empty beer bottles, and other missiles were thrown from the trucks into the Negro camp accompnied by such epithets as ‘niggers,’ ‘night-fighters,’ and ‘black sons-of-bitches’.
at night fighter (n.) under night, n.
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