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​A woman and two children walk past a mural in Monrovia November 10, 2011.
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The American experiment in Liberia

In 1930, an American sociologist arrived in the capital of Liberia, a small country in West Africa, on an unusual assignment. Charles S. Johnson, trained at the University of Chicago, had never conducted research outside the United States before.