1930-03-01: (The Women’s March Before the Forbes Commission — In March 1929 President Hoover Inheriting the Growing Discontent and by 1930 Approving a Commis…

1930-03-01: (The Women’s March Before the Forbes Commission — In March 1929 President Hoover Inheriting the Growing Discontent and by 1930 Approving a Commission Led by W. Cameron Forbes, the Five White Men Not Anticipating the Demonstration They Received, a Decade After Régina Carrié Thoby Had Fundraised for Antioccupation Missions She Along with Justinien Ricot and Thérèse Vieux-Clesca Taking to the Streets Again on March 1 1930, Their Peaceful Protest Gaining National and International Attention as They Led the Largest Independent Opposition Protest During the Occupation, US High Commissioner Russell Denying Thoby and UP Leaders a Permit but Forbes Overturning the Decision When Régina Proposed a Peaceful Parade of Women Without Men): In March 1929, the newly elected US president Herbert Hoover inherited the growing discontent regarding the occupation, and by the end of the year he had to address, if not question, the military’s denial and silencing of reports from Haiti. In 1930 Hoover approved a commission to investigate the occupation, led by W. Cameron Forbes. The five-person committee of white men did not anticipate the demonstration they received. A decade after Régina Carrié Thoby, with Malbranche-Sylvain and other UP women, had fundraised for antioccupation missions for her husband and Sténio Vincent, she, along with Justinien Ricot and Thérèse Vieux-Clesca, took to the streets again on March 1, 1930. This time their peaceful protest gained national and international attention as they led the largest independent opposition protest during the occupation. In advance of the Forbes Commission’s arrival, US high commissioner Russell denied Perçeval Thoby and leaders of the UP a permit for the march. But the decision was overturned by Forbes when Régina Carrié Thoby proposed a peaceful parade of women without men. The condition was itself a revelation: the occupation would permit women’s protest precisely because it could not imagine women as a political threat — and Mme. Thoby exploited this miscalculation with devastating precision.