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1946-Aug.-16

1946-Aug.-16: Dumarsais Estimé is elected president, representing the rise of the noiriste middle class.

1946-Aug.-16: Dumarsais Estimé is elected president, representing the rise of the noiriste middle class. His administration sought to empower black professionals and reduce the traditional dominance of the mulatto elite.

Source Trouillot, Haiti: State Against Nation, 142; Nicholls, From Dessalines to Duvalier, xxviii