Antedating of "African-American"

Jesse Sheidlower jester at PANIX.COM
Wed Jul 27 13:57:48 UTC 2005


On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 03:39:33PM +0200, Paul Frank wrote:
> What's the earliest cite for African American in the OED database?

1855 for the noun, 1858 for the adjective.

Jesse Sheidlower
OED



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