From the web: “Use of ‘African-American’ Dates to Nation’s Early Days”

The term African-American may seem to be a product of recent decades, exploding into common usage in the 1990s after efforts by advocates like Jesse Jackson, and only enshrined in the Oxford English Dictionary in 2001. The O.E.D.

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