Coloured Cheddar-style cheese has long been sold, but even as early as 1860, the real reason for this was unclear: Joseph Harding stated " to the cheese consumers of London who prefer an adulterated food to that which is pure I have to announce an improvement in the annatto with which they compel the cheesemakers to colour the cheese ".

The League of Coloured Peoples was formed to demand a minimum wage, a wage tribunal and free health care for all.

He was initially involved with the multiracial National Union of South African Students, but after he became convinced that Black, Indian and Coloured students needed an organization of their own, he helped found the South African Students ' Organisation ( SASO ), whose agenda included political self-reliance and the unification of university students in a " black consciousness.

Uniquely, 16 acres ( 65, 000 m² ) was offered to each Free Coloured or Free Person of Colour ( gens de couleur libre, as they were later known ), and half as much for each slave they brought.

The other major party participating in the election, the National Democratic Party ( NDP ), was a spin-off of the League of Coloured Peoples and was largely an Afro-Guyanese middle-class organization, sprinkled with middle-class Portuguese and Indo-Guyanese.

During the course of the 18th century, Bermuda's population was boiled down to two demographic groups: White and Coloured.

It was largely by this method ( mixed-race Bermudians being added to the number of Blacks, rather than added to the number of Whites or being defined as a separate demographic group ) that Coloured ( subsequently redefined in the twentieth century as Black ) Bermudians came to outnumber White Bermudians by the end of the 19th century, despite starting off at a numerical disadvantage, and despite low Black immigration prior to the latter 19th century ( other contributing factors included the scale of White relative to Black emigration in the 17th and 18th centuries, the greater mortality of Whites from disease in the late 17th century, and large-scale West Indian immigration, which began, like Portuguese immigration, in the 19th century to provide labourers for the new export agriculture industry and expansion of the Royal Naval Dockyard.

However, the album was a bigger success abroad, though on a lesser scale than her debut, spawning further hits with the songs “ Coloured Kisses ” and “ Temptation ”.

Under Apartheid, under the Population Registration Act as amended, the term Cape Coloured referred to a subset of Coloured South Africans, with subjective criteria having been used by the bureaucracy to determine whether a person was a Cape Coloured, or belonged to one of a number of other related subgroups such as the " Cape Malays ", or " Other Coloureds ".

In South Africa, and much of English-speaking southern Africa, the term Coloured was used to describe a mixed-race person and also Asians not of African descent.

In Malan's words, it was " established to oppose the police state, abuse of state power, censorship, racism, the removal of the Coloured vote and other oppressive manifestations of the creeping fascism of the National Party regime ".

While the largely white middle-and upper-class Baltimoreans supported the orchestras and other societies, the city's African Americans formed their own Coloured Symphony Orchestra in 1931, which was municipally supported just like the BSO ; the first performance included Ellis Larkins and Anne Brown, the latter known for creating the role of Bess in Porgy and Bess.

Hoffmann was persuaded by friends to publish the book anonymously as Lustige Geschichten und drollige Bilder mit 15 schön kolorierten Tafeln für Kinder von 3 – 6 Jahren ( Funny Stories and Whimsical Pictures with 15 Beautifully Coloured Panels for Children Aged 3 to 6 ) in 1845.

In 1958 Botha was appointed Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs by Hendrik Verwoerd, and in 1961 advanced to Minister of Coloured Affairs.

These reforms all bolstered the National Party politically, as they removed black and Coloured influence – which was hostile to the National Party – from the electoral process, and incorporated the pro-Nationalist whites of South West Africa.

He wrote about birds including Notes on the Birds of Northamptonshire and Neighbourhood ( 1895 ) and Coloured Figures of the Birds of the British Islands, which was completed by Osbert Salvin after his death.

The NSM had come to an end sometime after Colin Jordan was imprisoned in early 1967 for distributing a racist leaflet The Coloured Invasion and following his release Jordan had met John Tyndall in Denis Pirie's house about the possibility of joining the National Front.

By 1901 there were 392 occupied stands in the New Marabastad and there was no real segregation between Africans, Asians and Coloured people.

The identification of the species responsible was made possible by James Sowerby's 1803 book Coloured Figures of English Fungi or Mushrooms, which included a description of the fungus, then known as Agaricus glutinosus ( originally described by Moses Ashley Curtis in 1780 ).

Musician Spencer P. Jones ( The Beasts of Bourbon, Paul Kelly and The Coloured Girls ) was also born in Te Awamutu.

The name was chosen to evoke the former Labour Party led by the late Reverend Allan Hendrickse as an anti-apartheid Coloured party.

Coloured pencils are sometimes used by teachers or editors to correct submitted texts but are more usually regarded as art supplies, especially those with waxy core binders that tend to smear on paper instead of erasing.

Coloured tape placed under climbing holds is another way that is often used to mark different climbing routes.

** " Coloured ", a term used in the British Isles to describe the coat of a Pinto horse

During the apartheid era, in order to keep divisions and maintain a race-focused society, the government used the term Coloured to describe one of the four main racial groups identified by law: Blacks, Whites, Coloureds and Indians.

For the term used to describe an ethnic group in Southern Africa see Coloured.

Coloured uniforms were useful in enabling commanders to spot troop locations on battlefields that were often completely obscured by smoke from the black used in both muskets and cannons.

Coloured winkers, of the style used in Thoroughbred racing.

In 1955, the Congress of the People officially adopted the Freedom Charter, stating the core principles of the South African Congress Alliance, which consisted of the African National Congress and its allies the South African Communist Party ( SACP ), the South African Indian Congress, the South African Congress of Democrats ( COD ) and the Coloured People's Congress.

Together with the Gandhara grave culture and the Ochre Coloured Pottery culture, it is considered by some scholars a nucleus of Vedic civilization.

Coloured copperplate engraving.

* 1947 – Mickey Finn, English singer and musician ( T. Rex, Mickey Finn's T-Rex, and Hapshash and the Coloured Coat ) ( d. 2003 )

The Janet effort resulted in the standardisation known as the Coloured Book protocols, which provided the first complete X. 25 standard.

The principal groups are the Ovambo, Kavango, Herero / Himba, Damara, mixed race ( Coloured and Rehoboth Baster ), White Namibians ( Afrikaner, German, and Portuguese ), Nama, Caprivian ( Lozi ), Bushmen ( San ), and Tswana.

The early Indo-Aryan presence probably corresponds, in part, to the Ochre Coloured Pottery culture in archaeological contexts.

Image: Soybean cyst nematode and egg SEM. jpg | Coloured SEM image of soybean cyst nematode and egg.

By January 1837, an alliance of 107 Boers, sixty Rolong, and forty Coloured men, organised as a commando under the leadership of Potgieter and Gert Maritz, attacked Mzilikazi's settlement at Mosega, which suffered heavy losses, and early in 1838 Mzilikazi fled north beyond the Limpopo ( to current day Zimbabwe ), never to return to the Transvaal.

This resulted in Trinidad and Tobago having the unique feature of a large French-speaking Free Coloured slave-owning class.

* September 17 – The D ' Oliveira Affair: The Marylebone Cricket Club tour of South Africa is cancelled when the South Africans refuse to accept the presence of Basil D ' Oliveira, a Cape Coloured, in the side.

The range of accents found amongst English-speaking Coloureds ( from the distinctive " Cape Flats or Coloured English " to the standard " colloquial " South African English accent ) are of special interest.

Black, Indian and Coloured students educated in former Model C schools or at formerly white tertiary institutions will generally adopt a similar accent to their white classmates.

In Zimbabwe, native English speakers ( mainly the white and Coloured minority ) have a similar speech pattern to that of South Africa.

Coloured " start " spaces encircle the outer perimeter which correspond to each player's suspect token.

In 1931, the restricting franchise qualifications were removed for white voters, but kept for Black and " Coloured " voters.