1934-05-10: (The Second LFAS Founded — Despite the Setback the “Enthusiastic and Dedicated” Women Immediately Going Back to Work, On May 10 1934 Sylvain Alon…

1934-05-10: (The Second LFAS Founded — Despite the Setback the “Enthusiastic and Dedicated” Women Immediately Going Back to Work, On May 10 1934 Sylvain Along with Garoute Hudicourt Bellegarde Gordon Corvington Mathon Dartigue Turian and Justin Leading a Group of Women Teachers Attorneys Doctors Journalists and Social Workers to Develop a More Palatable Agenda, the New LFAS Carrying the Same Name but a Revised Platform Structured Around Poverty Hygiene Childcare and the Conditions of Women in All Social Classes, Vincent’s Government Granting Authorization with “Little Difficulty,” Sylvain Writing That the Founders Thought Feminism Was “Above All a Movement for Social Improvement” — Untethering the Movement from a Strict Focus on Political Rights and Prioritizing Changes in Social Structures): Despite the initial setback, the enthusiastic and dedicated women immediately went back to work. On May 10, 1934, Sylvain along with Alice Garoute, Thérèse Hudicourt, Fernande Bellegarde, Olga Gordon, Marie Corvington, Alice Téligny Mathon, Esther Dartigue, Maud Turian, and Georgette Justin led a group of women teachers, attorneys, doctors, journalists, and social workers to develop a more palatable agenda for government authorities and founded a new LFAS. The organization carried the same name but had a revised platform structured around the mission to address issues of poverty, hygiene, childcare, and the moral, physical, and intellectual conditions of women in all social classes. The Vincent government was satisfied with the modified initiatives and granted legal authorization with little difficulty. Sylvain later wrote that the founders thought feminism, more than a movement of political liberation, was above all a movement for social improvement. From the outset, the women untethered the movement from a strict focus on political rights within state governance and prioritized changes in the social structures of the nation. The founders surmised that a public-facing mission of altruism would appease the government and appeal to a larger audience of women and men. The wayfaring had begun in earnest — the women learned that the direct path to rights was blocked, and so they would walk just off the road.