Yvonne Sylvain
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Yvonne Sylvain was a Haitian physician who was the first female medical doctor from the country. She was also the first woman accepted into the University of Haiti Medical School, and earned her medic
Siblings in the Sylvain family in Paris, 1912: Suzanne (1898-1975), Normil (1900-1929), Henry (1901-1991), Madeleine (1905-1970), Jeanne (1906-), Yvonne (1907-1989), Pierre (1910-1991)
Suzanne Comhaire-Sylvain
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Suzanne Comhaire-Sylvain was the first woman Haitian anthropologist. Suzanne Comhaire-Sylvain was a student of Bronisław Malinowski who worked in 1949 with Alfred Métraux, and participated in a UNESCO
Yvonne Sylvain
…Sylvain, a Haitian activist and an important figure of resistance against the American occupation of Haiti. They had seven children, one of them being Suzanne Comhaire-Sylvain, Haiti’s first woman anthropologist. Influenced heavily by her father, she attended Ecole Normale d’institutrices, where she graduated and began to…
Suzanne Comhaire-Sylvain