[Léon Damas]
Black Past: “In 1934, the three founded the journal L’Étudiant Noir, a platform for a pan-Africanist literary and cultural movement that Damas, Aimé Césaire, and Senghor would come to call Négritude.”
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Léopold Sédar Senghor
Pan-African Profile: Léopold Sédar Senghor Co-Founder of Negritude Movement
[Léopold Sédar Senghor]
Black Past: “As time progressed he increasingly became more attached to his African traditions and less interested in assimilation. These ideas, along with the ideas of Aimé Césaire and other Black intellectuals in France, would turn into the Negritude movement.”
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Pan-African Profile: Aimé Césaire Co-Founder of Negritude Movement
[Aimé Césaire\Negritude Movement]
BlackPast: “The journal explored the expression of a Pan-African worldview under colonization. The concept of Negritude, a word coined by Césaire, would be founded on these ideas.”
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