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To: mquinn; All

How did the New York Times refer to blacks in 1961?? Negroes? African?? hmmmm


50 posted on 07/28/2009 11:22:32 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Ann Archy

Negros or colored. Black was sometimes considered perjorative. African was reserved for actual Africans from Africa.


96 posted on 07/28/2009 11:52:40 AM PDT by bvw
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