[Ads-l] Antedating of "Black Is Beautiful"

[Shapiro, Fred]

black is beautiful (OED 1964)

1927 New York Amsterdam News 30 Nov. 20 (ProQuest)

Marcus Garvey made black people proud of their race.  In a word where black is despised he taught them black is beautiful.

NOTE: The OED has a slightly later version of this same quotation in square brackets.  I don't see why this should have been put in square brackets.

Fred Shapiro

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