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Creator
Dartigue, Jean-Joseph Maurice, 1903-1983
Call number
Sc MG 303
Physical description
.8 linear feet, (2 archival boxes)
Preferred Citation
Maurice Dartigue papers, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library
Repository
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division
Access to materials
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Photocopies of correspondence, memoranda, annual reports and printed matter relating to Maurice Dartigue's career as Director of Rural Education and Minister of Education, Agriculture and Public Works, consecutively from 1931 to 1946, and as senior education specialist and project director of UNESCO sponsored educational programs in Africa from 1956 to 1970. Also includes microfiches of Dartigue's correspondence during the administration of Haitian President Elie Lescot (1940-1946), and his office files regarding United States investments and agricultural projects in Haiti. Correspondents include presidents Lescot and Paul Eugène Magloire (1950-1956).

Biographical/historical information

Born in Haiti in 1903, Maurice Dartigue was trained as a rural education specialist at the Damien School of Agriculture in Port-au-Prince and at Columbia University's Teachers College in New York. He began his career as Administrator of Rural Schools in 1926 during the U.S. occupation of Haiti and was promoted Director of Rural Schools in 1931. He was appointed Minister of Education in the administration of President Elie Lescot in 1941, and went into exile after the latter's overthrow in 1946. Dartigue settled the same year in New York and began a new career at the United Nations as a senior specialist in education in the Trusteeship department. He joined the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization in 1956, supervised the Major Latin American Project (LAMP) and other programs in Asia and the Arab states, and was appointed Chief of UNESCO's Africa Division in 1962. He directed several educational and teachers' training program in Africa until his retirement in 1968.

Scope and arrangement

Photocopies of correspondence, memoranda, annual reports and printed matter relating to Maurice Dartigue's career as Director of Rural Education and Minister of Education, Agriculture and Public Works, consecutively from 1931 to 1946, and as senior education specialist and project director of UNESCO sponsored educational programs in Africa from 1956 to 1970. Also includes microfiches of Dartigue's correspondence during the administration of Haitian President Elie Lescot (1940-1946), and his office files regarding United States investments and agricultural projects in Haiti. Correspondents include presidents Lescot and Paul Eugène Magloire (1950-1956).

Arrangement

I. Correspondence, 1931-1970; II. Speeches, 1931-1947; III. Writings by Maurice Dartigue

Administrative information

Source of acquisition

Gift, Dartigue, Esther, 11/--/89

Using the collection

Location

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division
515 Malcolm X Boulevard, New York, NY 10037-1801
Second Floor

Access to materials

Advance notice required. Request access to this collection.

Location of originals

Correspondence Bibliothèque Nationale, Port-au-Prince, Haiti