another "Negro" in quotes

[Margaret Lee]

Also, back in the day (before the '60's), the newspaper in my hometown of Lynchburg, VA identified as "Negro" any black person who had been arrested or had committed a crime, This was probably the same for most newspapers at the time, especially in the South. 
 
--Margaret Lee

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--- On Sun, 10/24/10, Mark Mandel <thnidu at GMAIL.COM> wrote:


From: Mark Mandel <thnidu at GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: another "Negro" in quotes
To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Date: Sunday, October 24, 2010, 8:13 PM


OMG.

m a m, who grew up in NYC, has always lived in the North, and is ignorant of
much of the unwritten (and the written) history of this country

On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 3:06 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Little-known fact: back in the day, Southern - well, farther behind
> the Cotton Curtain than Saint Louis, IAC - telephone books placed a
> "c" after the names of people who had telephones and were also
> colored. That always struck me as overkill, somehow.
>
> --
> -Wilson
> –––
>

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