[Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Niggerati"

[Shapiro, Fred]

Niggerati (OED 1932)

1927 Tar Heel (University of North Carolina) 28 May 1 / 4 (Newspapers.com)

Lewis Alexander of Washington, D.C., ... recently made a trip south in the interests of Fire, a new magazine of the Niggerati; as the negro intellectuals term themselves.

Fred Shapiro


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