1920-11: (The Union Patriotique Women’s Fundraising Campaign — Following the Attack on Eleanor Charles and the Summer Attack on Nine Haitian Girls the UP Beg…

1920-11: (The Union Patriotique Women’s Fundraising Campaign — Following the Attack on Eleanor Charles and the Summer Attack on Nine Haitian Girls the UP Beginning Plans to Send a Delegation to Washington D.C. to Present Concerns Over Marines’ Misconduct, Fundraising Becoming Central to the UP’s Operational Efforts, Women Activists Bearing the Responsibility for Securing the Organization’s Financial Security, Eugénie Malbranche-Sylvain at the Helm of the Women’s Collective Effort — Well Versed in Antioccupation Politics as One of the “Wives Daughters and Sisters” of the UP, Keen to Contribute Her Personal Efforts in This Work of National Liberation, Garnering the Support of Alice Garoute and Thérèse Hudicourt to Establish an Urban Antioccupation Women’s Collective and Mining the Streets of Port-au-Prince for Donations): Toward the end of 1920, following the attack on Eleanor Charles and the summer attack on the nine Haitian girls, the Union Patriotique began plans to send a delegation to Washington, D.C., to present their concerns over US Marines’ misconduct and propose a strategy for ending the occupation. Fundraising became a central component of the UP’s operational efforts and a necessary variable for the antioccupation organization’s ultimate success. Women activists bore the responsibility for securing the organization’s financial security and future — the men would travel to Washington, but it was women who would finance the journey. Eugénie Malbranche-Sylvain was at the helm of this women’s collective effort. Like her husband Georges Sylvain, Malbranche-Sylvain was well versed in antioccupation politics. As one of the wives, daughters, and sisters of the UP, she was keen to contribute her personal efforts in this work of national liberation. In Port-au-Prince, Malbranche-Sylvain garnered the support of her friends Alice Garoute and Thérèse Hudicourt, who combined their resources to establish an urban antioccupation women’s collective and mined the streets of Port-au-Prince for donations. The political economy of liberation was gendered at every level: men articulated the demands, women underwrote them — and it was the streets, the same streets where women were surveilled, beaten, and killed, that became the terrain of their fundraising.