A Negro is someone with dark skin who comes from Africa or whose ancestors came from Africa. a word for a black person, which is now usually considered offensive (from negro , from niger). New Negro Movement Negro leagues Negro River Universal Negro Improvement Association
The term used to refer to blacks of African origin Related to the Spanish word for black, Negro, and the term used to describe African races, Negroid, Negro was in common use into the 1960s The Black power and Black pride movements popularized the preferred term Afro-American during the late 1960s (Malcolm X had objected to Martin Luther King, Jr 's use of the term Negro, proposing instead Afro- American) "African-American" emerged later, as did Native-American, Asian-American, etc
n The piece de resistance in the American political problem Representing him by the letter n, the Republicans begin to build their equation thus: "Let n = the white man " This, however, appears to give an unsatisfactory solution
A black man; especially, one of a race of black or very dark persons who inhabit the greater part of tropical Africa, and are distinguished by crisped or curly hair, flat noses, and thick protruding lips; also, any black person of unmixed African blood, wherever found
relating to or characteristic of or being a member of the traditional racial division of mankind having brown to black pigmentation and tightly curled hair