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Letter from Mary White Ovington to Edouard Réquin

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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

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Requesting information regarding Negro troops in the French Army. Written by NAACP Acting Chairman, Mary White Ovington, on behalf of the organization's research for a lecture.
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  1. Soldiers, Black

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