Colored People: A Memoir - Henry Louis Gates, Jr. on African-American History (1994)

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Colored People


Colored people is a term used in the United States to refer to black people (i.e., persons of sub-Saharan African ancestry; members of the black race). Since the success of the African-American Civil rights movement, the term, along with "negro" and others, has been largely replaced by "black." According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, the word colored was first

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