View source for Merriam-Webster Dictionary

====Date: [[:Category:1997|1997]]====

====Region: [[:Category:North America|North America]]====

====Subject: [[:Category:Language|Language]]====

====Medium: [[:Category:Textbook|Textbook]]====

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'''Confronting Bodies:''' different entities including NAACP

'''Confronted Bodies:''' Dictionary Publishers 

'''Dates of Action:''' Throughout the 1970s and the 1990s

'''Location:''' United States

'''Description of Artwork:''' A complete dictionary of the English language.  <P>

'''The Incident:''' The NAACP requested that the Merriam-Webster change the definition of the word, "nigger." <P>

'''Results of Incident:''' Unknown <P>

'''Source:''' Long Island Coalition Against Censorship, "Censorship in Schools and Libraries" exhibit, [http://www.aaregistry.org/historic_events/view/naacp-asks-merriam-webster-revise-definition-nigger More Information Here]



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