Cet article est la revue du livre « Haiti Fights Back: The Life and Legacy of Charlemagne Péralte » écrit par Yveline Alexis. Ce livre étudie la période de l’occupation militaire d’Haïti par les États-Unis de 1915 à 1934 en confrontant la mémoire collective haïtienne du mouvement anti-occupation dirigé par Charlemagne Péralte et les archives américaines parlant de Péralte.

On August 9, 1946, a femme du peuple (woman of the people) walked into the Legislative Palace in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. She entered the building as members of the National Constitutional Assembly deliberated women’s voting rights. She pressed through the crowd of politicians and curious onlookers, making her way toward a section reserved for women. There, the elite and middle-class members of Haiti’s first women’s rights organization, the Ligue Féminine d’Action Sociale (LFAS), were seated, listening to assembly representatives’ impassioned debate.