1929 · Haitianyear only

A strike over stipends ends with marines firing on peasants

From the agricultural college at Damiens to the killing ground at Marchaterre in six weeks.

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1929 to 1961 · Africanspan

Swahili gives Tanganyika a nationalism Nigeria could not build

The African Association became TANU in 1954, and one shared language carried it into every district.

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January 1929 · Haitianmonth known

Haiti and Santo Domingo finally agree where the border is

Eighty-five years after Dominican independence, 224 miles of frontier got a line on the map.

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1929 to 1934 · Datasetspan

Syria and Lebanon keep paying an Ottoman debt that Turkey had halved

164 million francs to French financiers, and a local surplus that ended up buying rifles.

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1929 · Haitianyear only

An American writer finds the Champ de Mars strewn with Judases

The limbs scattered across the park lawns leaked sawdust and cotton batting.

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1929 · Diasporayear only

The world crisis of 1929 takes Turkey's farm exports with it

A failed experiment in opposition politics and a collapse in export prices arrived together.

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3 January 1929 · Haitian

Borno praises American paternalism and is quoted in Washington

The High Commissioner put the president's own words in his report to argue the occupation should go on.

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January 1929 · Diasporamonth known

A book club sends a marine's Voodoo kingdom into American living rooms

The Magic Island became a Literary Guild selection and turned Haiti into a national entertainment.

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9 February 1929 · Haitian

Brouard dedicates a column to Normil Sylvain

The indigenists closed ranks in print months before the schools went out on strike.

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15 June 1929 · Diaspora

Hoover gets a farm board and half a billion dollars in sixty days

The agricultural depression was ten years old and the remedy lasted four.

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1929 · Haitianyear only

The anniversary of the battle is worth half a day off work

Before Duvalier, the state marked 18 November with a partial holiday rather than a full one.

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24 to 29 October 1929 · Diasporaspan

Sixteen million shares change hands on Black Tuesday

The ticker ran four hours late and a third of the market's value was gone by mid November.

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31 October to 3 December 1929 · Haitianspan

215 students walk out of Damien and the country follows them

Freeman cut the scholarship fund and told the sons of good families to do their own manuring.

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19 November to 5 December 1929 · Diasporaspan

Hoover asks employers not to cut wages and they agree

Every previous downturn had begun with pay cuts, and this president asked for profits instead.

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December 1929 · Haitianmonth known

Twelve dead at Les Cayes end what protest could not

Hoover sent a commission within weeks. It told Borno to go and Washington to plan an exit.

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6 December 1929 · Haitian

Marines fire on fifteen hundred people at Aux Cayes and kill twelve2 sources

A student strike over scholarships had grown into a general strike across the country.

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7 December 1929 · Haitian

A student strike brings out the marines and Hoover asks Congress2 sources

New taxes, a coffee law and a refused election turn a school protest into a national crisis.

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7 December 1929 to 28 February 1930 · Haitianspan

The Nation names it a massacre and Hoover asks for a commission

Two days after the killings the president asked Congress how to get out, and Roumain refused the invitation.

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