[Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Aframerican"

[Shapiro, Fred]

Aframerican (OED 1910)

1890 Seattle Post-Intelligencer 29 Mar. 4/1 (Newspapers.com)

At a recent convention of colored citizens an effort was made to popularize the compound Afro-American, but that is too clumsy.  Aframerican would be better. ... Anything would be better than "colored man."

Fred Shapiro

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