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To: ckilmer

This is a new one for me:

“In the early ‘60s the State of Hawaii listed African- Americans as Negroes.”


18 posted on 11/27/2008 2:46:28 PM PST by RummyChick
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To: RummyChick

The polite, and official, term everywhere in the ‘60s for those of African ancestry was “negro.”


24 posted on 11/27/2008 2:51:07 PM PST by AnalogReigns
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To: RummyChick

As far as I know, all states did in the early 60’s.


119 posted on 11/27/2008 6:03:06 PM PST by autumnraine (Churchill: " we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall never surrender")
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