Negro (Noun)
Meaning
A person with African ancestry, "Negro" and "Negroid" are archaic and pejorative today.
Classification
Nouns denoting people.
Examples
- W.E.B. Du Bois's monumental "The Negro" from 1915 still stands as a milestone of twentieth-century social thought.
- The American Negro Theatre would be part of the American Negro Exposition, which was held for six months.
- The term 'Negro' was used to refer to all the descendants of slaves brought into the United States from the early 16th century until the mid-19th century.
- By 1960 African American leaders like Martin Luther King Jr began to make a distinction between "Negro" and "black".
- People of African descent have been referred to as 'Negroes' throughout the history of the African diaspora.