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Le Progressiste: 1488 Issues Now Available on dLOC

I am delighted to announce that you can now find 1488 digitised issues of Le Progressiste: organe du Parti Progressiste Martiniquais in the Digital Library of the Caribbean (www.dloc.com): http://ufdc.ufl.edu/AA00053606/00316/allvolumes
Le Progressiste was an influential weekly newspaper published and edited by Pierre Aliker, activist and politician, and Aimé Césaire, poet, author, and politician.
The digitized issues range from 1958 (year of the first publication) to 2009. They offer Caribbean Studies a major new resource pertaining to the history of Martinique, France, Négritude, and/or Francophone politics.