[Ads-l] Antedating of "Peckerwood" (Derogatory Term for White Person)

[Shapiro, Fred]

peckerwood (OED, 2., 1928)

1901 Plaindealer (Topeka) 8 Mar. 2 (GenealogyBank)

The peckerwood, resubmission candidate and cigarette fiend on the so-called Law and Order Ticket, which ought to be called the Lying, Disorder and Hypocrisy Ticket, seems to think that Chiles and Townsend ought to leave town until he is elected. ... The colored people will not support men who denounce their race at every opportunity.

Fred Shapiro

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