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> Most of us became familiar with the ethnonym African American in the 1980s, when Jesse Jackson began popularizing it as an alternative to black.
https://yalealumnimagazine.org/articles/4216-the-origin-of-a...
> African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans and Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from sub-Saharan Africa.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_Americans
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> Most of us became familiar with the ethnonym African American in the 1980s, when Jesse Jackson began popularizing it as an alternative to black.
https://yalealumnimagazine.org/articles/4216-the-origin-of-a...
> African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans and Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from sub-Saharan Africa.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_Americans