Re: New College of Florida dumped hundreds of library books

On Fri, 16 Aug 2024 09:51:08 +0200, D <nospam@example.net> wrote:

had the word "negro" in them

Question of the Month

When Did the Word Negro Become Socially Unacceptable? - 2010
 
It started its decline in 1966 and was totally uncouth by the
mid-1980s. The turning point came when Stokely Carmichael coined the
phrase black power at a 1966 rally in Mississippi. Until then, Negro
was how most black Americans described themselves. But in Carmichael's
speeches and in his landmark 1967 book, Black Power: The Politics of
Liberation in America, he persuasively argued that the term implied
black inferiority. Among black activists, Negro soon became shorthand
for a member of the establishment. Prominent black publications like
Ebony switched from Negro to black at the end of the decade, and the
masses soon followed. According to a 1968 Newsweek poll, more than
two-thirds of black Americans still preferred Negro, but black had
become the majority preference by 1974. Both the Associated Press and
the New York Times abandoned Negro in the 1970s, and by the mid-1980s,
even the most hidebound institutions, like the U.S. Supreme Court, had
largely stopped using Negro.

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