Shelby

[shel-bee]

noun

1. a city in S North Carolina.

Example Sentences

It has been almost 20 years since Shelby Steele published the best-known of his five books on race, “White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era.”

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As a result, Shelby chips in, blacks are “worse off today than they were in 1964.”

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Shelby’s wife and Eli’s mother, Rita, sits alongside us.

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The daughter of Holocaust survivors, she met Shelby during his junior year at Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

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Like his own son, the Chicago-born Shelby is a man of mixed race: His father, Shelby Sr., was a black truck driver; his mother, Ruth, a white social worker.

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