Keith Ethelbert Baird (20 January 1923 – 13 July 2017) was a Barbados-born American educator and linguist, whose work in linguistic anthropology and the politics of language is considered trailblazing. At a 1966 conference in Washington, DC, Baird argued convincingly that the word Negro "is used solely to describe the slaved and the enslavable", and that instead the description Afro-American should be used.
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20 January 1923 Arch Hall, Saint Thomas, Barbados
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Died |
13 July 2017 (aged 94) Atlanta, United States
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Zodiac | Capricorn |
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