Sentence:  A recent newspaper report said there were five <WSD>Negroes</WSD> in the 1960 graduating class of nearly one thousand at Yale ; that is , about one-half of one per cent , which looks pretty `` tokenish '' to me , especially in an institution which professes to be `` national '' . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa)