Toledo, Ohio, Jan. 19—The Observer, published in this city by Cornelius Edwoods, has just succeeded in a campaign which had as its object respect for the Negro race, as reflected in healines and stories in the daily papers. Hereafter, according to rules compiled by the white papers of the city, the word “Negro” is to be begun with a capital letter, and only where absolutely necessary for identification is the word to be used at all. The following rules adopted by the Toledo Blade show the nature of the stand which the dailies have taken:
The Blade does not want to play up the fact that any person figuring in the news is colored, nor does it want to suppress the racial adjectives in every case. The fact of color should not be stressed in the news bu mentioned casually, if at all.
The color is never to be used in a headline.
The term “colored” is to be used whenever possible in place of “Negro.” Negress must NEVER be used. “Black” is prohibited.
Whenever “negro “ is used it must be capitalized. The word is seldom necessary, however, except where it is part of the name of an organization, such as “Negro Business men’s Club,” or something of the sort.
From the front page of The Star of Zion, The Official Organ of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, Charlotte, N.C., Thursday, Jan. 21, 1926
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