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Mavis: One Simple Sentence

Mavis: One Simple Sentence

The year is 1921. Louisiana lawmakers ban French in classrooms, silencing the language for generations of families. Decades later, along comes Mavis Arnaud Fruge on a mission to revive the language stolen from her community.

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