Beatdom's history of the word Beat, cited for John Clellon Holmes's own journal record that Kerouac applied the term to a generation on December 10, 1948.
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PublisherBeatdom
URLhttps://www.beatdom.com/beat-first-written/
Source Typereference
Reliability Tier2
Beatdom is a Beat Generation-specific literary magazine and archive edited by David S. Wills, author of several published books on Kerouac and the Beats; a subject-specialist secondary source rather than a general encyclopedia or peer-reviewed press. Sources
When Was 'Beat' First Written? (Beatdom)
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