Jane Vialle
JaneorJeanne Vialle(1906 – 9 February 1953) was a French journalist, politician and women's rights activist.[1]She was a member of theFrench Resistance,and one of the first two black female senators in France.[2][3]
Life
[edit]Jeanne Vialle was born in 1906 inOuéssoinUbangi-Shari,now modern-dayRepublic of the Congo.[1]She studied at theLycée Jules-FerryinParisand gained her baccalauréat. Then she became a journalist at Opéra Mundi, an information agency. In 1940, she entered the resistance against theNazioccupation of France.Arrested inMarseillein 1943 and jailed, she managed to escape before the war ended. She was awarded theResistance Medal.[3]
After the end ofWorld War II,Vialle joinedAgence France-Pressewhere she monitored the new relation between France and its colonies in thefourth French Republic.In July 1946, she founded her own political party, l'Evolution pour l 'Afrique Noire (APEAN; Association for Evolution of Black Africa). In January 1947, she was elected to theCouncil of the Republicrepresenting Ubangui-Chari, and joined the socialist group there. She was re-elected in November 1948.[3]
She served as one of the seven members of theAd Hoc Committee on Slaveryof theUNin 1950-1951.[4]
She died on 9 February 1953 in a plane accident inVillenave d'Ornon.[3]
References
[edit]- ^abRichard A. Bradshaw and Juan Fandos Rius,Jane Vialle,Dictionary of African Biography,New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. Accessed on 5 July 2020.
- ^Annette Joseph-Gabriel,Hate heaped on black heroines of the French Resistance would look familiar to AOC and Rashida Tlaib,The Conversation,21 May 2019. Accessed 5 July 2020.
- ^abcdJeanne/Jane Vialle (1906-1953),Black Past,8 March 2017. Accessed 5 July 2020.
- ^Miers, S. (2003). Slavery in the Twentieth Century: The Evolution of a Global Problem. USA: AltaMira Press. 323
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