[Ads-l] Antedating of "Black Muslim"

[Shapiro, Fred]

Black Muslim (OED, n., 1961)

1959 _Cleveland Call and Post_ 19 Sept. 3C (ProQuest)  I am an expert on the black Muslims.


Black Muslim (OED, adj., 1960 [11 Oct.])

1960 _St. Louis Post-Dispatch_ 30 Mar. 5F/1 (ProQuest)  I am told that on Barry Gray's radio program one of the Black Muslim representatives said that "whites have blood on their hands."


Fred Shapiro


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