1932 to 1934 · Haitianspan

The 1932 constitution keeps the vote for men and the women wait

Article 8 went through unchanged because desoccupation came first, and a Dominican ally proved fleeting.

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1932 to 1957 · Haitianspan

A road up the mountain turns Kenscoff into a summer resort

From the middle of September the city people leave and the bourg empties for nine months.

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5 March 1932 · Haitian

Carl Brouard keeps the indigenist revolt going in La Bataille

The poet wanted a cultural revolution grounded in the African inheritance of the majority.

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March 1932 · Diasporamonth known

James lands in London and is in a Lancashire mill town by May

He goes to help a cricketer write an autobiography and gets his own book printed instead.

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March 1932 · Diasporamonth known

La Revue du Monde Noir prints an article on Black art worldwide

A bilingual Paris journal gave Black intellectuals from three continents one shared page.

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spring 1932 · Haitianseason

Roumain and Beaulieu go to New York for party funds

American funding is promised on condition the party is organised underground.

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29 April 1932 · Haitian

Diaquoi puts science and art at the service of political action

Ethnology was to end in the concrete liberation of the race or it was decoration.

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12 May 1932 · Haitian

Diaquoi dies young and leaves the Griots to Denis and Duvalier

He drove the group's early thinking through L'Action Nationale until his death.

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18 May 1932 · Haitian

Piquion credits Price-Mars with a whole generation's self respect

The Sacred Flame appeared in L'Action Nationale as a tribute to the doctor.

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23 June 1932 · Haitian

Lorimer Denis tells his generation to take power and hold it

Ma génération set out a mission for the new Black middle class of Haiti.

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1932 · Haitianyear only

Diaquoi founds the Griots and tells Haitians to stop imitating whites

A handful of young writers set out to rehabilitate African values in Haitian national life.

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July 1932 · Haitianmonth known

Price-Mars reads Harlem next to the Haitian indigenists

He put the two movements side by side in La Relève and found one argument running through both.

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15 September 1932 · Haitian

Haiti's Congress rejects the new treaty to humiliate Vincent

A text nearly everyone expected to pass dies in joint session with nobody willing to look unpatriotic.

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late 1932 · Haitianseason

Intercepted letters become evidence for a strike never called

Vincent's government builds a plot out of correspondence with New York and a Cuban doctor.

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