1946-01-11: (Lescot Forced to Resign by a Military Coup Led by Paul Magloire, the Fall of the Last Mulatto Elite President Before the Noirisme Revolution Tra…

1946-01-11: (Lescot Forced to Resign by a Military Coup Led by Paul Magloire, the Fall of the Last Mulatto Elite President Before the Noirisme Revolution Transforms Haitian Politics): On January 11, 1946, Élie Lescot was forced to resign by a military coup led by Paul Magloire, bringing to an end the era of uncontested mulatto elite governance that had defined Haitian politics since the U.S. occupation. The coup was driven by the convergence of multiple grievances: peasant anger over land expropriation, Black intellectual fury over the suppression of Vodou, the corruption of the Lescot family, and the post-war global climate that made authoritarian governance harder to justify. Dumarsais Estimé, a Black politician and supporter of the Noirisme movement, was elected to a six-year term and assumed power in August 1946. He became the first Black leader of Haiti since Vilbrun Guillaume Sam in 1915. A new constitution was promulgated. The Noirisme movement that Price-Mars had launched with a book in 1928 was now in power.