Body Recovered from South Fork of the Eel River, Just South of County Line—Not Connected to Missing ROTR Attendee

Actually…from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colored

Colored (or coloured) is a racial descriptor historically used in the United States during the Jim Crow era to refer to an African American. In many places, it may be considered a slur.

Dictionary definitions

The word colored (Middle English icoloured)[dubious – discuss] was first used in the 14th century but with a meaning other than race or ethnicity.[2][3] The earliest uses of the term to denote a member of dark-skinned groups of peoples occurred in the second part of the 18th century in reference to South America. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, “colored” was first used in this context in 1758 to translate the Spanish term mujeres de color (‘colored women’) in Antonio de Ulloa’s A voyage to South America.

The term came in use in the United States during the early 19th century, and it then was adopted by emancipated slaves as a term of racial pride after the end of the American Civil War until it was replaced as a self-designation by Black or African-American during the second part of the 20th century. Due to its use in the Jim Crow era to designate items or places restricted to African Americans, the word colored is now usually considered to be offensive.

The term has historically had multiple connotations. In British usage, the term refers to “a person who is wholly or partly of non-white descent,” and its use is generally regarded as antiquated or offensive.[4][5] Other terms are preferable, particularly when referring to a single ethnicity.

United States

In the United States, colored was the predominant and preferred term for African Americans in the mid- to late nineteenth century in part because it was accepted by both white and black Americans as more inclusive, covering those of mixed-race ancestry (and, less commonly, Asian Americans and other racial minorities), as well as those who were considered to have “complete Black ancestry”.[6] They did not think of themselves as or accept the label African, did not want whites pressuring them to relocate to a colony in Africa, and said they were no more African than white Americans were European. In place of “African” they preferred the term colored, or the more learned and precise Negro.[7] However, the term Negro later fell from favor following the Civil Rights Movement as it was seen as imposed upon the community it described by white people during slavery, and carried connotations of subservience. The term black was preferred during the 1960s by the Black Power movement, as well as radical black nationalists (the Black Muslims and the Black Panthers), pan-Africanists (Stokely Carmichael, leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) and political progressives. “Negro” was still favored as self-descriptive racial term over “black” by a plurality in the late 1960s; however, by the late 1970s and early 1980s, “black” was strongly favored.[6]