URGENT antedating needed: "the race card"

[Shapiro, Fred]

The New York Amsterdam News, Mar. 4, 1978, p. A7, had an article headlined "The race factor in Britain."  Included in this article is the sentence: "Whatever her intentions on policy -- and Mrs. Thatcher does clearly support equal rights and non-discrimination for all settled in Britain of whatever color or creed -- this attituce has led to claims that the Tories may play the race card."

Fred R. Shapiro
Editor
Yale Book of Quotations (Yale University Press)



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From: American Dialect Society [ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of Laurence Horn [laurence.horn at YALE.EDU]
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 3:34 PM
To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: URGENT antedating needed:  "the race card"

Hi,

A N. Y. Times reporter (not connected with Safire's column!) needs
urgently to know what the history/origin of "the race card" is, for a
piece he's writing in this Sunday's Week in Review.  I will seek to
make sure whoever has something for him will be credited.  Let's make
sure his work on this is as accurate as it can be given the time
pressure.

LH

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