Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Alice Garoute (1874 – 30 October 1950) was a Haitian suffragist and advocate for women's rights in Haiti, including those of rural women.On her deathbed in 1950, Alice Garoute asked that flowers be placed on her grave the day Haitian women would finally be able to vote. [1]
Grace Dyer Taylor (31 July 1859 – 23 August 1867) was the eldest surviving daughter of James Hudson Taylor and Maria Jane Dyer, Christian missionaries to China.The event of her death of meningitis at the age of eight near Hangzhou has been cited by mission historians such as Ruth Tucker, Roger Steer, and John Pollock as being a turning point in the history of the China Inland Mission.
The following is a list of massacres that have occurred in Haiti, following the end of the Haitian Revolution in Saint-Domingue which declared its independence from France on 1 January 1804 and became the world's first and oldest black-led republic in the Americas, the first Caribbean state and the first Latin American country as a whole in the Western Hemisphere after the United States ...
WiR redlist index: Haiti. Welcome to WikiProject Women in Red (WiR). Our objective is to turn red links into blue ones. Our scope is women's biographies, women's works, and women's issues, broadly construed. This list of red links covers women from Haiti. It is intended to serve as a basis for creating new articles on the English Wikipedia.
In 1936, the Haitian government recognized Holly for his five decades of work for Haiti 25 years after his death, and awarded him its highest honor, Commander in the National Order of Honor and Merit. [5] The aftermath of the 2010 Haitian earthquake postponed plans to celebrate the 100th anniversary of his death.
In 1997, she helped organize an international tribunal in Haiti dealing with violence against women. [1] [3] [2] Marcelin appeared in the films Haiti in all our dreams and Anita. [3] She was the godparent of the daughter of former Canadian Governor General Michaëlle Jean. [4] Marcelin died at the age of 47 at Port-au-Prince in the 2010 Haiti ...
Yvonne Sylvain (June 28, 1907 – October 3, 1989) [1] was a Haitian physician who was the first female medical doctor from the country. [2] She was also the first woman accepted into the University of Haiti Medical School, and earned her medical degree in 1940.
Grace H. Knapp (21 November 1870 – 14 March 1953) was an American Christian missionary and teacher who served in the Ottoman Empire. During her time as a missionary, Knapp was a witness to the Armenian genocide .