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Nashville Negro Speaks on France War Minstrel Show
Nashville born Sylvester Bogus Johnson leads a regiment of African American stevedores in France known as the War’s Minstrel Show. He and his comrades, praised by French officers, sing plantation songs and dance as they work shuttling supplies for the American Expeditionary Forces.
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France
Howard Kahn
National War Work Council
Mr. Kalin
Vames
Sylvester Bogus Johnson
Nashville
Tennessee
Toamsen
Christophe Columbus
Atlantic
Ealls
Atlantic Ocean
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Johnson
Klaki
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