British colonizers instituted segregation based on skin colour: Whites were first-class citizens, Indians ( who had been brought to Kenya to work on the East African Railway as slaves, were second-class citizens, and native Kenyans were third-class citizens.

The Whites were mostly coureurs des bois who intermarried freely with aboriginal women before the arrival of the first filles du roy in 1663.

* According to the United States Census Bureau, Americans who identify themselves as Hispanic or Latino, African American, Asian, Pacific Islander, and Native American will collectively outnumber Whites of non-Hispanic origin.

Whites who are not Hispanic or Latino were 12. 10 % of the city's population.

Intended by her Dahomeyan captors to be a human sacrifice, she was rescued by Captain Frederick E. Forbes of the Royal Navy, who convinced King Ghezo of Dahomey to give her to Queen Victoria, " She would be a present from the King of the Blacks to the Queen of the Whites ," Forbes wrote later.

After the Bolshevik revolution, Finland declared its independence but was soon embroiled in a civil war between " Reds ", who declared for the working class, and " Whites ", who represented the aristocracy, landowners, and the middle-class and were the troops of the Senate of Finland.

This was largely due to his being seen by many politicians of the centre and left as a controversial figure for his outspoken opposition to the Bolsheviks, his supposed desire for Finnish intervention on the side of the Whites during the Russian Civil War, and the antipathy toward him of Finnish socialists, who saw him as the ' bourgeois ' ' White General '.

National organizations played their role, exposing the problems, but it was local organizations and individuals who implemented these rights and were not fearful of reactionary Whites who wanted to keep segregation alive.

Third were the Whites in the boroughs outside Manhattan who had a similar educational background and " cosmopolitan " attitude, namely residents of solidly middle-class neighborhoods, including Forest Hills and Kew Gardens in Queens and Brooklyn Heights.

In order to bolster support for a republic, the voting age for Whites was lowered from twenty-one to eighteen, benefiting younger Afrikaans speakers, who were more likely to favour a republic, and the franchise was extended to whites in South West Africa, most of whom were German or Afrikaans speakers.

Sergeant-Major Morris, a friend of the Whites who has been part of the British Armed Forces in India, leaves them with the monkey's paw, telling of its mysterious powers to grant three wishes, and of its journey from an old fakir to his comrade, who used his third and final wish to wish for death.

Blancs d ' Espagne (" Spanish Whites ") was a term used to refer to those legitimists in France who, following the death of the Comte de Chambord in 1883, supported the Spanish Carlist claimant rather than the Orleanist candidate, who was supported by the vast majority of French royalists.

Britain's Prime Minister, David Lloyd George, who wanted to negotiate a favourable trade agreement with the Bolsheviks pressed Poland to make peace on Soviet terms and refused any assistance to Poland that would alienate the Whites in the Russian Civil War.

There, in the Free Territory, they fought in the civil war against the Whites ( a Western-backed grouping of monarchists and other opponents of the October Revolution ) and then the Bolsheviks as part of the Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army of Ukraine led by Nestor Makhno, who established an anarchist society in the region for a number of months.

The White movement () and its military arm the White Army ( Бѣлая Армiя / Белая Армия, Belaya Armiya ), also known as the White Guard ( Бѣлая Гвардiя / Белая Гвардия, Belaya Gvardiya ) or the Whites ( Белые and белогвардейцы, " White Guardsmen "), was a loose confederation of Anti-Communist forces who fought the Bolsheviks in the Russian Civil War ( 1917 – 1922 ).

Later it was used by the Czarist Whites who fought against the communist " Reds " in the Russian Civil War, because the Russian " Whites " had similar goals to the French " Whites " of a century earlier.

** Because of its use by anti-communist forces in Russia, the colour white came to be associated in the 20th century with many different anti-communist and counter-revolutionary groups, even those that did not support absolute monarchy ( for example, the Finnish " Whites " who fought against the socialist " Reds " in the civil war following the independence of Finland ).

A minority of ultra-reactionaries, the so-called Blancs d ' Espagne (" Spanish Whites "), continued to withhold support from the House of Orléans and chose instead Juan, Count of Montizon, the Carlist pretender to the Spanish throne, who also happened to be the senior male descendant of Louis XIV.

Franks performed an original song with Grand Ole Opry stars The Whites entitled " Let's Live Everyday Like It was Christmas.

Within this context eminently festive, many secular celebrations are considered a preface to Blacks and Whites ' Carnival, and in the city of Pasto is mainly performed on 28 December ( All Fools ' Day ) and 31 ( New Year's Eve ).

With talc is performed the Whites ' Game

" To this day ," he writes, " Whites admire, envy and seek to emulate such supposed innate qualities of Blackness as inherent musicality, natural athleticism, the composure known as ' cool ' and superior sexual endowment ," a phenomemon he views as part of the history of blackface.

Repressed, doomed to die, he took black powder or seedgrains in the hollow of his hand, this Ogé ; sprinkled a film of white ones on the top, and said to his Judges, " Behold they are white ;" – then shook his hand, and said " Where are the Whites, Ou sont les Blancs?

The film is a Russian civil war drama, focusing on the conflict between the Reds and the Whites.

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.

The Boston Public Schools included a conglomerate of ethnic Whites (" Caucasians ") with very few WASPs.

Thus, although an African nationalist party, it adopted a non-racial stance, and in fact included a number of Whites and mulattoes among its members.

Furthermore, there was a great deal of tension within the bands, which often included agrarian peasants, kulaks, workers, and Whites, many of whom possessed preexisting resentment towards each other.

The housing developments that were built east of downtown were at first ethnically mixed and included Whites, Blacks, Mexicans, and Chinese until the 1990s.

The intramural team, which included players of Native American, white, and Latino ancestry, adopted the name " Fighting Whites ", with an accompanying logo of a stereotypical " white man " in a suit, styled after advertising art of the 1950s, as their team mascot.

In 2003, the team donated $ 100, 000 to the University of Northern Colorado's UNC Foundation, which included $ 79, 000 designated for the " Fightin ' Whites Minority Scholarship ".

Now, the Blacks and Whites ' Carnival have been officially included in government plans of the municipality of Pasto, but managed by an autonomous office, which had as main project, its recognition and accreditation with the international community and agencies such as the Unesco, definitively introducing these celebrations in the globalized world, such as Intangible Heritage of Humanity.

: Whites 1. 7 % ( Mostly British )

Whites eventually joined the fight against apartheid, leading many Black nationalists to break away from the ANC.

After much reluctance and debate New Zealand agreed to change for the Tests and the All Blacks became the All Whites for the first time.

Non-Hispanic Whites were 62. 1 % of the population in 2010, down from 89. 7 % in 1970.

After the Black Army had served its purpose in aiding the Red Army to stop the Whites under Denikin, the Soviet communist government decided to eliminate the anarchist forces.

Whites ( in Spanish blancos ) are estimated at 6 %, and consists largely of those of unmixed or predominant European descent.

* Germany gave direct military support to Finnish independence by training Finnish Jägers and successfully intervened in Finnish Civil War in favor of the nationalist Whites.

The Whites — dominated by peasants and middle-and upper-class factions, in particular upper-class Swedish speakers — received marked military assistance from the German Empire.

The Reds were based in the towns and industrial centres of southern Finland, while the Whites controlled central and northern Finland.

The Whites won the war, in which about 37, 000 people died out of a population of 3 million.

Fighting broke out between the Reds and the Whites in January 1918 and quickly escalated.

A general offensive by the Whites ( whose Guards ' total force was about the same as that of the Red Guards ) began on 15 March 1918, bolstered by the intervention of the 10, 000-strong Baltic Sea Division and the 3, 000-strong Detachment Brandenstein of the German army.

The battles of Tampere and Viipuri, won by the Whites, and the Battle of Helsinki, won by German troops, were the decisive military actions of the war.

Both the Reds and Whites used political terror as a military weapon during the conflict.

The final escalation towards war began in early January 1918, as each military or political act of the Reds or the Whites resulted in a corresponding counteraction by their opponents.

In order to gain weapons and to secure a major power base in the Vaasa-Seinäjoki area the Whites continued disarmament of Russian garrisons, initiated locally in western and eastern Finland during 21 – 23 January, followed by a major operation in Ostrobothnia during the early hours of 28 January.

Whites besiege Tampere and encircle attacking Soviet Russian and Red forces at Rautu, on Karelian Isthmus.

The Whites captured the junction at the end of January 1918, leading to fierce battles at Vilppula.

The Whites ' bridgehead south of the River Vuoksi at Antrea on the Karelian Isthmus was a constant problem to the Reds, as it threatened the railway connection Viipuri-Petrograd.

Some of them, such as Mikhail Svetšnikov, led Red troops in western Finland throughout February 1918, while other officers were mistrustful of their revolutionary underlings and co-operated with their former colleague General Mannerheim, assisting the Whites in the disarmament of the Russian garrisons in Finland.

Accordingly, the propaganda of the Whites promoted a nationalist war against the Red, Bolshevist Russians, and belittled the significance of the Red Finns.

In February 1918 General Mannerheim weighed the question of where to focus the general offensive of the Whites, between two strategically vital enemy strongholds: Tampere, Finland's major industrial town in the south-west, and Viipuri, Karelia's main city.

Eventually, the Whites cut off the Red troops ' connection to the area south of Tampere, arriving in Lempäälä from the east, via Kangasala, on 24 March, and in Siuro ( Nokia, Finland ) and Ylöjärvi, in the west, on 25 March.