On August 28, 1920, the first installment of James Weldon Johnson’s “Self-Determining Haiti” was published in the Nation. We look back on that important milestone in the movement to oppose the occupation here:
![The Crisis , September 1920, p. 223. Modernist Journals Project.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bc96864c2ff6137d020199c/1598384083090-YX8CATLV4ELPEO43JML1/ke17ZwdGBToddI8pDm48kOveZZhs_VZqwRwUMHrqPP1Zw-zPPgdn4jUwVcJE1ZvWQUxwkmyExglNqGp0IvTJZUJFbgE-7XRK3dMEBRBhUpyjB2cEklM5lM6VfFToBTSVko1xP3tc392QafA8GaazNUnBCu9iQdC8xidQ9nS2Wkg/image-asset.png?format=750w)
The Crisis, September 1920, p. 223. Modernist Journals Project.