If I recall correctly, the term “black” came into wide use around 1968. For some reason, activists did not like the term “Negro”.
And if I recall correctly, Jesse Jackson made a speech around 1988, in which he said that his people should be called “African-Americans”, and that term caught on. But the term “black” never went away after African-American became popular. But in the late ‘60s, use of black replaced Negro altogether. Nowadays, use of the term Negro might be enough to get you “lynched”.
Exactly right!
Everytime I hear “A-A”, I cringe and think JJ is giggling at the world.