13 June to 14 July 1934 · Haitianspan
Four weeks of lectures on feminism at the Union Club, entry 2.50 gourdes
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In June 1934 the League put itself in front of the public. Its leaders treated the hostility they met as a problem of visibility, answerable by showing up and by publishing research. From 13 June to 14 July they ran their first large event, a four week lecture series on Haitian feminism at the Union Club in Port-au-Prince. The sessions were meant to raise social and cultural awareness and to get people arguing about current affairs, and the organisers wanted the country's philosophical quarrels dragged into action. The gatherings were advertised as democratic space where anyone could set out a vision of representative government and show competence as a citizen. Admission cost 2.50 gourdes. The month covered feminism and women's education, Haitian women in history, the modern organisation of education, and feminism in France. The speakers carried it: Jean Price-Mars, who built indigénisme; Dantès Bellegarde, diplomat and minister of public instruction; and Maurice Dartigue, director of rural education. Price-Mars was known for accusing the elite of collective Bovaryism, of dreaming themselves into France.
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