1926 to 1937 · Haitianspan

Two movements form and both go looking for the same urban poor

Roumain's communists were mulatto men of letters; the Griots were Black and called themselves authentic.

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1926 · Haitianyear only

Haitian scouting begins while marines run everything else

A body for children run by Haitians, in a year when almost nothing else in the country was.

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1926 · Diasporayear only

Six Americans go to Haiti and tell Washington to leave

Addie Hunton's tour of Port-au-Prince produced 180 pages demanding the marines go home.

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1926 · Haitianyear only

Haitian women answer the occupation by opening schools

One new society gathered the presidents of half the women's associations in Port-au-Prince.

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1926 · Diasporayear only

Hunton calls it quiet propaganda and then never stops talking

In twelve months she took Haiti to conventions in California, Chicago, Oakland and New York.

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1926 · Haitianyear only

A censored rape report reaches Du Bois in an envelope of clippings

The editor who printed the story lost his government post. Nobody else lost anything.

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1926 to 1936 · Haitianspan

Fewer than one in five baptised children had married parents

The Catholic register at Plaisance says the same thing in three sample years.

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1926 · Haitianyear only

Three foreign investigators of the occupation are met by Haitian women

Four years later women organised the march that told the Forbes Commission to go home.

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January 1926 · Haitianmonth known

Hudicourt reviews the state of Haitian democracy and finds none

He argued that the occupation had built no democratic institution any Haitian could use.

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2 March 1926 · Haitian

A trade school for girls opens six months after the first meeting

Marshall told Roosevelt the society kept women as officers because the gentlemen needed waking up.

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1926 · Haitianyear only

Rene Depestre is born at Jacmel and will spend his life elsewhere

A poet of the 1946 student revolt who went on writing about Haiti from every country that took him.

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16 July 1926 · Haitian

The whole country climbs one street at Ville Bonheur

Pilgrims, beggars, prostitutes and dance hall boys packed between the chapel and the waterfall.

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