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- (archaic) A person of sub-Saharan African descent.
- Encyclopaedia Britannica, "negro," 11th ed., page 344,
- : In certain of the characteristics . . . the negro would appear to stand on a lower evolutionary plane than the white man, and to be more closely related to the highest anthropoids. The characteristics are length of arm, prognathism, a heavy massive cranium with large zygomatic arches, flat nose depressed at base, &c.
- (archaic) A person with black or dark brown skin.
- 1963, w:Martin Luther King, Jr., Martin Luther King, w:Letter from a Birmingham Jail, Letter from a Birmingham Jail,
- : Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself, and that is what has happened to the American . Something within has reminded him of his birthright of freedom, and something without has reminded him that it can be gained.
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