1926: (Hunton’s “Quiet Propaganda” and Women’s Stories Shared Across the Region — When Hunton Returned She Optimistically Reported That High Officials Were T…

1926: (Hunton’s “Quiet Propaganda” and Women’s Stories Shared Across the Region — When Hunton Returned She Optimistically Reported That High Officials Were Taking Notice and That Her “Quiet Propaganda in Behalf of Haiti” May Result in Change — Though Her Propaganda Was Far from Quiet, In 1926 Alone Speaking at the California State Convention of NACW the National Federation of Colored Women’s Clubs the NAACP Chicago Convention and the Pan-African Conference in 1927, Hunton’s Work Alongside Malbranche-Sylvain and Hudicourt’s Participation in the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom Meaning Haitian Women’s Stories Were Being Shared Across the Region — Yet Haitian Girls’ Lives Continued to Be Altered by Occupation Personnel): When Addie Hunton returned from her trip, she optimistically reported that high officials were taking notice and that her quiet propaganda in behalf of Haiti might result in change. Hunton’s propaganda to impact the US perception of the occupation was far from quiet. In 1926 alone, she gave addresses about Haiti at the California State Convention of the National Association of Colored Women, the National Federation of Colored Women’s Clubs, the NAACP Chicago Convention, and the National Association of Colored Women in Oakland, California, followed by the Pan-African Conference the following year in New York. Hunton’s work alongside Malbranche-Sylvain and Hudicourt’s participation in the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom meant that Haitian women’s stories were being shared across the region. Yet in the meantime, Haitian girls’ lives continued to be altered by the actions of occupation personnel. The infrastructure of transnational solidarity could not outpace the machinery of violence — even as Black women organized across borders, the occupation continued to produce new victims whose names would join the growing archive of harm.