From: William Schuette <wschuette1@frontier.com> Subject: Offensive names Message-ID: <cf2b9ccf-a2dc-f365-87f8-27d771914a27@frontier.com> Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2018 18:11:31 -0600
We have old settler's articles and newspaper stories on our Web site
from the late 1800s and early 1900s, which contain a few derogatory
names for African Americans and Native American females. How do other
organizations treat such occurrences? Do we leave them as written with
the understanding that the usage was based on the time period, perhaps
with a caveat at the beginning of the article explaining why they were
retained? Or do we delete these references and put a bracket [ ] with
an explanation as to why the words have been excised?
Bill
Sauk County Historical Society