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1941

1941: Elie Lescot succeeds Sténio Vincent as president and continues to fill the higher ranks of the administration almost exclusively with mulattoes.

1941: Elie Lescot succeeds Sténio Vincent as president and continues to fill the higher ranks of the administration almost exclusively with mulattoes. His administration’s support for anti-superstition campaigns against Voodoo further alienated the rising black middle class.

Source  ·  p. 166 Nicholls, From Dessalines to Duvalier, 166