True, I agree. I was aware of that actually, even though I'm under 35. I can see how it's relevant to my article, but to be clear, I didn't criticize any of the five figures discussed in my article for using that word. They all used words that were actually racist in their time, like "monkeys," the n word, etc., or explicitly said that people of color are inferior. I would never assume that someone was racist just because they used the word "negroes," since I've known for quite a while that that wasn't a derogatory term back then.