1968
1968: Michel-Rolph Trouillot flees Haiti for Brooklyn to escape the repression of the Duvalier dictatorship.
1968: Michel-Rolph Trouillot flees Haiti for Brooklyn to escape the repression of the Duvalier dictatorship. He joined a large wave of student activists who sought refuge and political community in the diaspora.
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