"It started its decline in 1966 and was totally uncouth by the mid-1980s. The turning point came when Stokley Carmichael coined the phrase black power at a 1966 rally in Mississippi. Until then, Negro was how most black Americans described themselves."
When Did the Word Negro Become Taboo?
by Brian Palmer
http://www.slate.com/id/2241120/
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