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1946-01

1946-01: (The Revolution of 1946 — Eight Months Before the Constitutional Assembly a Group of Young Students Claiming to Continue the Fight for Sovereignty S…

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1946-01: (The Revolution of 1946 — Eight Months Before the Constitutional Assembly a Group of Young Students Claiming to Continue the Fight for Sovereignty Started in the Nineteenth Century and Influenced by the Postoccupation and World War II Milieu of Marxist Philosophy Socialist Politics and Cultural Nationalism Coordinating a Series of Political Protests Against the US-Supported Haitian President Élie Lescot, the Public Uprisings Lasting for a Week and Culminating in the Military Overthrow of Lescot, the August Assembly Electing Dumarsais Estimé, LFAS Women and Their Students Spilling into the Streets of Port-au-Prince Calling for New Representation in the State): Eight months before the 1946 assembly, a group of young students — claiming to continue the fight for sovereignty started in the nineteenth century and influenced by the postoccupation and World War II milieu of Marxist philosophy, socialist politics, and cultural nationalism — coordinated a series of political protests against the US-supported Haitian president Élie Lescot. The public uprisings, dubbed the “Revolution of 1946,” lasted for a week and culminated in the military overthrow of Lescot. At the August 1946 assembly, national representatives gathered to restore the terms of the nation’s governance and elected Dumarsais Estimé as president. The LFAS women were participants in this revolutionary moment: the group of formally educated teachers and financially affluent women who had come together in 1935 also spilled into the streets of Port-au-Prince in early January 1946 as they and their students called for new representation in the state. Although ousted president Lescot had privately supported LFAS calls for women’s rights, the nine months leading up to the assembly birthed many new genuine and strategic political alliances for women activists. The revolution opened a window that the women’s movement tried to climb through — only to find that the men who had broken the glass intended to shut it behind them.

Source HT-WGBN-000011, HT-WGBN-000012