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Unit 6.5
Grades 9-10
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Paris as Refuge: African American Expatriates from the Hellfighters to Baldwin

Between the First World War and the 1950s, thousands of African Americans — soldiers, musicians, writers, and artists — crossed the Atlantic and found in Paris something the United States would not give them: a chance to move, work, and create without the daily weight of Jim…

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