[Ads-l] Antedating of "Segregated" (Racial)

[Shapiro, Fred]

segregated, adj. (OED 1948)

1905 Buffalo Express 18 Nov. 4/4 (Newspapers.com)

The East Orange (N.J.) board of education has been attempting the uncivilized experiment of establishing separate schools for negroes.  The blacks won't send their children to the "segregated" schools and threaten to appeal to the courts, which undoubtedly will give them their rights.

Fred Shapiro


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