[Ads-l] Antedating of "New Negro" and "New Negro Movement"

[Shapiro, Fred]

New Negro (OED 1925 [1 Mar.])

1925 _The New Era_ 27 Feb. 1/7 (Newspapers.com)  Professor Locke, in "Enter the New Negro," writes of the spiritual emancipation among colored people that is now in progress.


New Negro Movement (OED 1953)

1926 _Current History_ Feb. 698 (Google Books)  Abram L. Harris Jr. ... is one of the most brilliant minds in the new negro movement.


Fred Shapiro

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