1921
1921: L’Union Patriotique was founded by a group of intellectuals to demand the immediate end of martial law and the withdrawal of American troops.
1921: L’Union Patriotique was founded by a group of intellectuals to demand the immediate end of martial law and the withdrawal of American troops. The organization quickly grew to sixteen thousand members from all levels of society and became the leading political voice of the nationalist movement.
Source · p. 149
Nicholls, From Dessalines to Duvalier, 149