Agemark

An agemark (or age-notation) is a form of notation that uses the typographic superscript to indicate a person’s age at the time of an event. This helps to further contextualize the person when the event occurred and is a form of information-scaffolding. The agemark is often used in chronologies and historical accounts and is meant to add additional information without distracting from the main point of the text or sentence. The agemark concept was devised by Catherine Newman and the terminology by Jaspal Sandhu and Julia Cosgrove.

Examples

Freedom! The Story of the Black Panther Party by Jetta Grace Martin, Joshua Bloom, and Waldo E. Martin Jr.

(without agemark) - “1966 October - Huey and Bobby found the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense” . Pg 327 (with agemarks added) - “1966 October - Huey²⁴ and Bobby³⁰ found the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense” . Pg 327

My Dream of Martin Luther King by Faith Ringgold

(with agemarks added)

June 1944 Martin Luther King¹⁵ enters Morehouse College in Atlanta.

November 17, 1955 Yolanda Denise King⁰, the Kings’ first child is born

December 1, 1955 Mrs. Rosa Parks⁴² refuses to give up her seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama.

December 5, 1955 Martin Luther King²⁶ is elected president of the Montgomery Improvement Association and leads a yearlong boycott of the Montgomery buses.

April 4, 1968 Martin Luther King³⁹ is shot and killed at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. Escaped convict James Earl Ray⁴⁰ is later found guilty of the murder.

References

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