[Ads-l] Antedating of "Diversity" (Racial Pluralism)

[Shapiro, Fred]

diversity (OED, 1.d., 1968)

1964 Louisville Defender 4 June 2/1 (Newspapers.com)

Freedom from want ... of jobs, education and decent housing can free millions of under privileged Americans for soaring adventure in personal and social creativity, and in the modern art of living nobly togeterh in racial diversity.

NOTE:  This passage is quoting Frank L. Stanley, Sr., the African American publisher of the Louisville Defender newspaper.

Fred Shapiro

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