[Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Integrate" (Racial)

[Shapiro, Fred]

integrate (OED, 2.b., 1948)

1932 Plain Dealer (Cleveland) 16 May 8/7 (Newspapers.com)

"The only hope of the Negro in his economic and political life is to integrate himself into the life of America," said Dr. Robert W. Bagnall of New York yesterday when he addressed a symposium on problems of the Negro.

Fred Shapiro

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