« Ted Turner in Apple 'Think different' ad from 1994 | Main | Life magazine cover: April 12, 1968 »
TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://www.typepad.com/services/trackback/6a00d83451ccbc69e201156ecd0909970c
Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Life magazine covers from March, 1965, reporting on the historic Selma-to-Montgomery March for voting rights:
This is only a preview. Your comment has not yet been posted.
As a final step before posting your comment, enter the letters and numbers you see in the image below. This prevents automated programs from posting comments.
Having trouble reading this image? View an alternate.
What struck me was not the outdated word "Negro" itself, but the use of the singular-noun-as-collective: the entire African American population referred to collectively as "the Negro".
Posted by: Cactus Wren | 19 January 2010 at 01:38 AM
Amazing, isn't it, how much can be conveyed by two Life magazine covers?
Posted by: Paula Zargaj-Reynolds | 23 January 2010 at 07:41 AM