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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]
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 ...
Lamartinière is depicted in Charles Moravia's 1908 play La Crête-à-Pierrot. [14] She was printed on a 100-gourde coin and a 1954 postage stamp. [15]For the 1967 revision of his play Toussaint Louverture: The Story of the Only Successful Slave Revolt in History, C. L. R. James loosely based the character Marie-Jeanne around Lamartinière.
also: People: By gender: Women: By nationality: Haitian This category exists only as a container for other categories of Haitian women . Articles on individual women should not be added directly to this category, but may be added to an appropriate sub-category if it exists.
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 ...
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.
From October 2004, she was vice-president of the Network of Women Ministers and Parliamentarians of Benin. [1] In 2005, she was one of only two people from Benin (along with Grace Aboh) who were nominated as a group of 1,000 women from around the world for the Nobel Peace Prize. [4] D'Almeida Adamon died on 12 May 2005 in Paris. [1]