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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]
Haiti Rapes, Lyn Duff, Pacific News Service, Haiti Action Net, 10 March 2005; Walking on Fire: Haitian Women's Stories of Survival and Resistance, Beverly Bell. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2001; Gender and Politics in Contemporary Haiti: The Duvalierist State, Transnationalism, and the Emergence of a New Feminism (1980–1990), Carolle Charles ...
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.
This is a list of notable Haitian people. It includes people who were born in Haiti or possess Haitian citizenship, who are notable in Haiti and abroad. Due to Haitian nationality laws, dual citizenship is now permitted by the Constitution of Haiti, therefore people of Haitian ancestry born outside of the country are not included in this list, unless they have renounced their foreign ...
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 1997, she helped organize an international tribunal in Haiti dealing with violence against women. Marcelin appeared in the films Haiti in all our dreams and Anita. She was the godparent of the daughter of former Canadian Governor General Michaëlle Jean. Marcelin died at the age of 47 at Port-au-Prince in the 2010 Haiti earthquake.
Women also assisted in carrying arms, cannons, and ammunition. They served as military nurses, relying on herbal and folk medicines to treat rebels in remote areas with little to no resources. In addition, women worked as spies, posing as sex workers and merchants in order to deliver messages and gain information about the French. [27]
Beauvais was born in Saint-Marc, Haiti, [1] to Marie-Claire Beauvais, a nurse, and Axel Jean Pierre, a lawyer. After her parents divorced when she was 3 years old, [2] she moved with her mother to the United States at age 7 along with her six elder siblings, and settled in Peabody, Massachusetts, where she enrolled in elementary school.