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The word Negro is used in the English-speaking world to refer to a person of black ancestry or appearance, whether of African descent or not. The word negro means 'black' in Spanish and Portuguese,from the Latin niger, 'black', probably from a Proto-Indo-European root *nekw-, 'to be dark', akin to *nokw- 'night'.[1][2]
The usage was accepted as normal, even by people classified as Negroes,until the later Civil Rights movement in the late 1960s. One well-known example is the identification by Martin Luther King, Jr. of his own race as 'Negro' in his famous 1963 speech I Have a Dream.During the American Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, some African-American leaders in the United States, notably Malcolm X, objected to the word, preferring Black,[3] because they associatedthe word Negro with the long history of slavery, segregation, and discrimination that treated African Americans as second class citizens, or worse.
The term "Negro" is still used in some historicalcontexts, such as in the name of the United Negro College Fund[4][5] and the Negro league in sports.
"Negro" superseded "colored" as the most polite terminology, at a time when "black" was moreoffensive.[6]
Since the late 1960s, various other roughly similar terms have been in popular usage. The latter include Black, Black African, Afro-American (in use from the late 1960s to 1990) and AfricanAmerican (used in the United States to refer to Black Americans, peoples often referred to in the past as American Negroes).[7]
The United States Census Bureau announced that "Negro" would be includedon the 2010 United States Census, alongside "Black" and "African-American" because some older Black Americans nevertheless self-identify with the term.[8][9][10]
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2 Inother languages
3 See also
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5 Further reading
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In English

Around 1442 the Portuguese first arrived in sub-Saharan Africa while trying to find a sea route to...