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Hidden fighters: Americans in Ethiopia

19 mins | Jun 23, 2017
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Black History Month: How black Americans signed up to save Ethiopia from fascism and Mussolini. This is the remarkable story of how in the 1930s, tens of thousands of black Americans stood up against fascism and signed up to fight to save Ethiopia from Mussolini, as told by Molly Crabapple in The Baffler.

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