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Josephine Baker performs a benefit concert at Kiel Auditorium, St. Louis, Missouri, USA, to draw attention to the plight of African-American children forced to attend separate schools that are inferior in quality to those attended by white students. The concert is sponsored by parents who had formed the Citizens Protest Committee On Overcrowding in Negro Public Schools the previous year.
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