[Ads-l] Possible Antedating of "Majority Minority"

[Shapiro, Fred]

Thanks to John for clarifying the "majority-minority" meaning.  More embarassing to me, as the only person to have won all five of the highest awards of the American Association of Law Libraries and the author of the classic article on legal citation form, is my omitting the volume number.

Fred Shapiro


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This is not the intended meaning of “majority-minority district,” which as noted below is a legislative district drawn so that a majority of its voters belong to a racial or ethnic minority. Rather, it deals with students being transferred to another school to achieve racial integration. That caveat also applies to the 1971 newspaper citation, and it may also apply to the 1978 citation, although I cannot tell for sure without looking at the full article. It is from the Publishers Extra version of Newspspers.com, which I do not have access to.

I note for the record that Fred inadvertently omitted the volume number of the 1970 citation, which should be 433 F.2d 387.


John Baker


> On Aug 2, 2026, at 8:44 PM, Shapiro, Fred <00001ac016895344-dmarc-request at listserv.uga.edu> wrote:
> legislative district drawn so that a majority of its voters belong to a racial or ethnic minority

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