another "Negro" in quotes

[George Thompson]

If I recall, changing this practice was a long-time crusade of the NAACP.

A prominent newspaper editor in NYC in the 1810s-1830s was Mordecai Noah, a Jew.  I've noted a few occasions when he protested because the editor of another newspaper had specified that some rascal was a Jew.

GAT

George A. Thompson
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern Univ. Pr., 1998, but nothing much lately.

----- Original Message -----
From: Margaret Lee <mlee303 at YAHOO.COM>
Date: Monday, October 25, 2010 4:36 am
Subject: Re: another "Negro" in quotes
To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU

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