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ERIC Number: EJ133705
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1975
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Some Notes on the Capital 'N'
Grant, Donald; Grant, Mildred Bricker
Phylon, 36, 4, 435-443, Dec 75
Notes that from the age of Booker T. Washington to the post World War II Freedom Movement, the term 'Negro', the spanish word for 'black' was the one designation for people of African descent most widely accepted; and discusses the campaign waged by blacks during this period to win acceptance of the practice of spelling 'negro' with a capital 'N'. (Author/JM)
Descriptors: Black History, Language Patterns, Literary Devices, Literary History, Racial Attitudes, Racial Discrimination, Racial Relations, Symbols (Literary), United States History, United States Literature
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