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Estimé, Dumarsais
April 21,
July 20,
Dumarsais Estimé was born on April 21, , in Verettes, a village in the Artibonite Valley of Haiti. He attended public schools and became a schoolteacher at the Lycee Petion. Among Estimé's students was François "Papa Doc" Duvalier (&#x;). Estimé later ventured into politics and secured the posts of secretary of education, secretary of labor, and secretary of agriculture under President Stenio Vincent between and When widespread protests led to the removal of President Elie Lescot, who held power between and , Estimé ran for president.
Estimé was one of many noiristes, Haitians who considered blacks to be the historical defenders of the nation's liberty and sought empowerment through opposition to white and mulatto rule. Inspired by popular disaffection with mulatto dictatorships and the black nationalism of noirisme, Estimé ran on the slogan "A Black Man in Power." Because he was the primary noiriste candidate from the North, he enjoyed the support of a large segment of the peasantry. He planned to liberate Haiti from U.S. domination, legislate greater freedoms, and embrace modernization as the panacea to the plight of workers and the peasantry. On August 16, , Dumarsais Estimé was elec
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Port-au-Prince, Noble 18,
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Memorandum of Conversation, by William B. Connett, Jr. of the Office of Middle American Affairs
[Washington,] December 1,
Subject:
- Request for U.S. Government Assistance by Ex-President Estimé of Haiti
- Participants: Dumarsais Estimé, Ex-President of Haiti*
- MID—Mr. Wellman
Mr. Estimé dwelt at some length on what he considered the abuses of the present administration in Haiti. He contrasted this with his own administration which he said rested on popular support while the present military regime was imposed on the Haitian people against its will. He said he had often been unjustly accused of advocating black supremacy when in fact he had appointed many mulattoes to political office, including the present Ambassador to Washington, Jacques Léger, whom he had assigned as Ambassador to Buenos Aires.
Estimé claimed that he still had the support of the Haitian people and that it would be to the interest of the United States to have him return to power to re-establish a healthy democracy in place of an oppressive dictatorship. He said he had discussed the matter with Ambassador Dunn1 in Paris and had come to the United States in the hope that he could gain the support of the U.S. Government. He remarked that he had been studying the current foreign polic