colored person

colored person
Literally, one of a race other than the white race, but generally understood, in the absence of a statutory definition to the contrary, to mean persons of Negro blood, the black people of Africa, known as Negroes, and their descendants of mixed or unmixed blood, at least those with a predominance of Negro blood. 35 Am J1st Mar § 146; 47 Am J1st Sch § 216. See Negro.

Ballentine's law dictionary. . 1998.

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