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plural Negroes or Negros
(dated, now often offensive) Alternative letter-case form of negro. quotations examples
Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself, and that is what has happened to the American Negro. Something within has reminded him of his birthright of freedom, and something without has reminded him that it can be gained.
1963, Martin Luther King, Letter from a Birmingham Jail