Word: negro
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...result of this outpouring of pride, black colleges have seen their endowments rising. The United Negro College Fund reported a record $44.1 million in contributions for its past fiscal year. Bill Cosby's announcement in November that he would donate $20 million to Spelman College, the Atlanta institution from which his daughter graduated, was another dollar sign of support from black parents...
...then Robeson had collected enough grievances to fuel a revolution. In high school one of his teachers thought Paul "the most remarkable boy I have ever taught, a perfect prince. Still, I can't forget that he is a Negro." Neither could the college football players who reviled him, or the secretary who warned the young law student, "I never take dictation from a nigger...
Similarly, for more than a century the descendants of the freedmen have debated what name they should bear as a people. In every instance, a shift in appellation coincided with a new stage in the struggle for equality. In the years after the Civil War, the terms black and negro, favored by slaveholders gave way to the gentler designation colored. Early in this century, when the legal battle against Jim Crow laws was being pressed by the N.A.A.C.P., Negro returned, but with a respectful uppercase N. That gave way to black during the militant days of sit-ins and mass...
...least a century now, Blacks have sought an identifier which truly defined a diverse race of people and their past. Blacks have answered to colored, Negro (with and without the capital N), Afro-American and, of course, Black...
...Colored" implied that white was the correct color, and that one was colored, say, with a crayon, incorrectly. "Negro," because it was widely-used in the 19th century along with the other "N"-word, recalls the days of slavery and oppression. "Afro-American" reminds Blacks of the Afro hair styles worn...