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[[File:Uhura meets Abraham Lincoln.jpg|thumb|Uhura explains to Lincoln that mankind no longer fears words]]
'''Negro''', '''colored''', and '''{{censored|n}}''' were [[term]]s used for [[person|people]] of [[African]] [[ancestry]] or [[physical appearance|appearance]] (such as having [[skin pigmentation|dark skin]] or being [[black people|black]]) throughout the [[English language|English-speaking]] [[Earth|world]] until the mid-[[20th century]].

One notable Negro [[newspaper]] was the ''[[Amsterdam News]]''. ({{DS9|Far Beyond the Stars}})

''In an alternate timeline [[1944]], while walking with [[Alicia Travers]], [[Jonathan Archer]] was asked by a [[German]] if he liked Negroes. He was then told, "When we send her back to Africa, you can go along. You can run through the [[jungle]]s together."

Alicia explained that her neighbourhood used to be a nice one, even for coloreds.

The [[German]]s outlawed [[colored music]] such as that of [[Billie Holiday]], but those opposed to them played it in secret.

According to [[Sal]], coloreds were among the resistance. ({{ENT|Storm Front}})''

During [[Benjamin Sisko]]'s vision of [[1950s]] [[United States of America|America]], [[Benny Russell]] and other people of color were often referred to as Negroes. [[Herbert Rossoff]] once joked about the dangers of a Negro with a [[typewriter]] (an [[author]]).

According to [[Douglas Pabst]], books by Negro authors such as ''[[Native Son]]'' were "literature for [[liberal]]s and [[intellectual]]s", but the average [[reader]] wouldn't spend money on such works. He explained to Russell that ''[[Incredible Tales of Scientific Wonder]]'' wouldn't publish his Sisko stories because the hero was a Negro captain in charge of a space station, which writers wouldn't accept. Russell then asked if [[Martian]]s were.

According to Pabst, Russell's fellow contributor [[Albert Macklin]] preferred [[robot]]s to either Negroes or [[white people]].

Later, [[Jimmy]] suggested that people of color would never get into [[space]] except as [[Shoeshine boy|shoeshiner]]s, because "''as far as they're concerned, we'll always be {{censored|n}}s.''"

During a [[brainstorming]] session, Macklin suggested Russell make the story of [[Deep Space 9]] a [[dream]], on which [[Kay Eaton]] elaborated, saying it could be "someone, er, someone without a lot of hope. A [[shoeshine boy]], a [[convict]], someone dreaming of a better future", after which Pabst concluded she meant the dreamer would be a Negro. [[Darlene Kursky]] agreed he would have to be if he was dreaming about a Negro captain.

[[Willie Hawkins]] didn't move to better living quarters when he became a famous [[baseball player]] because if he did, he'd be "just another coloured boy who can hit a [[curve ball]]" instead of being a [[celebrity]] in his own [[neighborhood]]. ({{DS9|Far Beyond the Stars}})

The [[Excalbian]] {{dis|Abraham Lincoln|Excalbian|recreation}} of [[Abraham Lincoln]] referred to [[Nyota Uhura]] as "''a charming Negress''" before realizing that his words were poorly chosen. He corrected himself by stating that in his time, "''some used that term as a description of [[slave|property]].''" Uhura, however, asked why she should object to that term, explaining that [[Human]] [[philosophy]] of the [[23rd century]] taught mankind not to fear words and to be delighted with who they were. ({{TOS|The Savage Curtain}})

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