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Georgia, in the siege of Savannah, leading to the surren

der of Yorktown, have answered ‘present’ at the roll call

made necessary by the infamous attack of Pearl Harbor,

and so we are at your side today, as yesterday our fore

fathers were.

“Never can we be indifferent to whatever concerns

the United States of America, our pact of friendship hav

ing been signed with the blood of our ancestors shed on

the same field of battle.”

The siege of Savannah in 1779 receives scant men

tion in ordinary text books. It was in an assault on Sav

annah that the Polish patriot and military officer Count

Pulaski was mortally wounded. The colonial troops suf

fered a disastrous reverse and were saved from annihila

tion by a legion of Haitians who covered the rear of

routed Americans. The Haitians learned much about

freedom and independence by their experiences in our

Revolutionary War. Fired with the spirit of liberty

Haiti became the second country of the Western Hemis

phere to throw off a foreign yoke and achieve independ

ence.

BETTER HOUSING

The National Association of Real Estate Boards is in

a dither over the recent exposure by the Colored press of

an agreement among powerful white agencies which

keeps colored people restricted to inferior housing and

brands them with an “undesirable” classification of the

same rank as bootleggers and gangsters and prostitutes.

Certain members of the NAREB hasten forward with all

sorts of denials and excuses for the printed and practiced

insults. The case against the nation-wide advocates of

How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo

The guardian. (1943). Boston, Mass., 1943-10-23. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83045863/1943-10-23/ed-1/?sp=4

ReferencesReferencias

Library of Congress, Chronicling America: The guardian, 1943-10-23.