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Det var den civil rights lederen Jesse Jackson som ledet bevegelsen etter Martin Luther King døde som promotert uttrykket African American
The protege of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. joined calls by NAACP members and other movement leaders in the late 1980s to replace “colored” and “blacks” with a term they thought better represented the community’s ancestral roots and brought a sense of dignity.
“To be called African Americans has cultural integrity — it puts us in our proper historical context,” Jackson said at the time. “Every ethnic group in this country has a reference to some base, some historical, cultural base.”