antedate for "nigger" = exploited person, UK 1941 (OED 1963) (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill CIV (US)]

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_The Public_ 9/9/1905 p 355 col 1 [google books]
"Labor organizations of this sort are the "good niggers" of the present
stage of the irrepressible conflict."

_NY Amsterdam News_ 8/30/1941 p 14 col 3 (column by W.E.B. DuBois)
"How then are the "niggers" of the world to be held in check?"


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>  "Since there are no niggers here, they had to create niggers. The
poor
> are the niggers in this country." Wyndham Lewis in The Vulgar Streak,
> 1941.
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> The OED defines this sense as "6. Esp. U.S. A person who is socially,
> politically, or economically disadvantaged or exploited; a victim of
> prejudice likened to that endured by African Americans," and gives as
> the earliest cite a 1963 sentence from Hunter Thompson.
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