Letter from the Houghton Mifflin Company to the Dunbar News
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Houghton, Mifflin and Company Dunbar News Hoyt, F. S
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Addressed to Roscoe Conkling Bruce; Signed F. S. Hoyt. Agreeing that the word "Negro" should be capitalized "as is done in the case of other words indicating racial types," and informing him that the publisher has, as of last year, "adopted the standard practice of capitalizing this word wherever it occurs." Possibly enclosed in correspondence with W. E. B. Du Bois concerning this matter of capitalization.
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