[Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Tokenism"

Shapiro, Fred fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU
Thu May 15 13:22:56 UTC 2025


tokenism (OED 1962)

1957 Greensboro (N.C.) Daily News 27 Nov. 1 / 2  (Genealogy Bank)  Did he consider admission of the 10 a substantial compliance with the law or rather a "hypocritical tokenism" really designed to "sell" a program of voluntary segregation to Negroes ?

Fred Shapiro

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