Maurice Satineau (born 18 September 1891 in
Baie Mahault,
Guadeloupe; died 13 September 1960 in
Paris
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) was a politician from Guadeloupe who served in the
French Council of the Republic (Senate) from 1948-1958 and the
French Chamber of Deputies
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from 1936 to 1942 (the Chamber was not summoned between 1940 and 1942) .
In 1928 he founded the journal
La Dépêche Africaine, a globally popular magazine of the
Comité de défense de la race noire, an early french black civil rights organisation. The journal was temporarily important for the early
Négritude
''Négritude'' (from French "Nègre" and "-itude" to denote a condition that can be translated as "Blackness") is a framework of critique and literary theory, developed mainly by francophone intellectuals, writers, and politicians of the African ...
-movement, but in general pro-colonial and
assimilative. In 1956 it went out of print.
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1891 births
1960 deaths
People from Baie-Mahault
Guadeloupean politicians
Socialist Republican Union politicians
Members of the 16th Chamber of Deputies of the French Third Republic
French senators of the Fourth Republic
Senators of Guadeloupe
Black French politicians
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