Coloured

Coloured (spelled colored in America) was a term used to refer to black people in the 20th century.

In Montgomery in 1955, the term was used to refer to black people. It was an offence to to harbour "coloureds" in motels. On buses, a row of "colored" seats were separate from "whites". Yasmin Khan, a British woman of Pakistani heritage who had been mistaken for a Mexican by locals, was unsure if "coloured" just meant black and took a seat in the white section. By law, the seats on the middle section were only for "coloureds" if "white folk" did not need them. On 1 December, while travelling home from work, civil rights activist Rosa Parks famously refused to give up her bus seat when the bus became crowded, leading to her arrest, an event that the Thirteenth Doctor, Ryan Sinclair, Yasmin, and Graham O'Brien witnessed. Her arrest lead to the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and a further chain of events that would result in the abolishment of segregation a year later. (TV: Rosa)

In 1963, a sign hanging in the window of Mrs Smith's Shoreditch boarding-house read "NO COLOUREDS", which Ace was disturbed by, so she took it down and hid it. (TV: Remembrance of the Daleks)