In 1956, Richard Wright spoke of islands of free men at the first Congress of Black Writers and Artists in Paris. James Baldwin critiqued the event for Encounter, the CIA’s propaganda magazine. We take a close listen to the original recordings.

Shownotes: <a href="https://academic.oup.com/histres/article/95/269/423/6603610" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Merve Fejzula</a> and <a href="https://press.umich.edu/Books/O/Of-Vagabonds-and-Fellow-Travelers2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Cedric Tolliver</a> both wrote about the 1956 Congrès des écrivains et artistes noirs. Darryl Pinckney wrote on <a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/norman-mailer-white-negro/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Norman Mailer</a> and <a href="https://guerrealautre.hypotheses.org/category/document" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Denis Leroux</a> wrote on <a href="https://francearchives.gouv.fr/findingaid/c8b15ce965c3ed4a97486f5735fe9bbd67ddb85f" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Antoine Bonnemaison</a>.

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