[Ads-l] Antedating of "Minority" (Member of Minority Group)

[Shapiro, Fred]

minority (OED, 3.c., 1951)

1943 St. Louis Post-Dispatch 17 Mar. 38/6 (Newspapers.com)

Unless there is ... a break-down of the prejudice against hiring minorities.

Fred Shapiro

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