Antedating of "Tokenism"
Shapiro, Fred
fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU
Sun Jan 2 15:52:08 UTC 2011
tokenism (OED 1962)
1960 _Atlanta Daily World_ 17 Apr. (ProQuest Historical Newspapers) Carter charged that integration in any field "is virtually or actually non-existent in Mississippi, Alabama, and South Carolina." He said it was "but a figment of tokenism in Georgia, Louisiana and Arkansas."
Fred Shapiro
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