Showing posts with label 1946 Revolution. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1946 Revolution. Show all posts

Sunday, December 14, 2014

Remembering 1946


With Haiti in the news again as Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe resigns, one cannot help but think of the large protests and unrest that rocked Haiti in the 1946, culminating in a revolution that unseated Lescot. During the current wave of protests, journalists described protesters as gathering around the grounds of the destroyed National Palace and I immediately thought of Matthew J. Smith's Red and Black in Haiti, which is where I found this photo.