[Ads-l] "Racial Uplift" Not in OED

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

Here is a match in 1897.

Date: November 4, 1897
Periodical: Christian Work
Volume 63, Number 1603
Article: Southern Colored Education
Author: Rev. Ellsworth Bonfils (Northern Secretary, Atlanta University)
Start Page 737, Quote Page 738, Column 1
Publisher: Bible House, New York

https://books.google.com/books?id=hg5OAAAAYAAJ&q=%22racial+uplift%22#v=snippet&

[Begin excerpt]
Wonderful as the progress of the last thirty years has been, it has
failed as yet to reach the mark of a great racial uplift. It is to
this task that the American people must address itself with increasing
fervor and wisdom and generosity, nor only in a spirit of abstract
Christianity.
[End excerpt]

Garson

On Sun, Sep 14, 2025 at 7:57 PM Shapiro, Fred
<00001ac016895344-dmarc-request at listserv.uga.edu> wrote:
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> racial uplift (not in OED)
>
> 1899 St. Paul Globe 1 June 6/2 (Newspapers.com)
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> (heading)  Fifty Years of Racial Uplift.
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> Fred Shapiro
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