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Unit 3
Grades 9-10
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Leon Damas: The Founder Who Published First and Is Remembered Least

Of Negritude's three founders, Leon Damas is by far the least remembered, despite a claim to significance this lesson wants to establish directly: Damas, not Senghor or Cesaire, was the first of the three to publish a full volume of poetry within the movement, and that volume,…

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