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Article: Emily Greene Balch and Haiti.(Haitian revolution)(www.HaitiReborn.org.)
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- Peace and Freedom
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- March 22, 2004
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I'd been traveling and making films in Haiti for several years before I learned about Emily Greene Balch's historic trip there.
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In 1926 Balch, who helped found WILPF with Jane Addams, led an interracial WILPF delegation to Haiti. Afterwards, the delegation issued a report critical of the U.S. occupation (1915-1934).
It was Ellen Mass of Boston WILPF who made the connection for me. Ellen had organized and videotaped an event marking the 50th anniversary of Balch's receipt of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1946. At Ellen's request, we used her footage to make a video about Balch's life. In the process I read Mercedes M. Randall's ...