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. Although partitioned away from the rest of the assembly audience, these women saw the moment as a political renaissance.