About this picture: Feminist, journalist - Born in Port-au-Prince in 1906, Rimpel was a founder of the first Haitian feminist organisation, the Women's League for Social Action Ligue Feminine d Action Sociale .
It was founded in 1934 by a group of women intellectuals, professionals and activists from the middle and upper classes, and played an important role in politics for the next 25 years, focusing mainly on legal rights - suffrage, access to education, equality for married women.
In 1951, she founded Escale, a bi-weekly news revue, and for six years she was its director, driving force, and main editor.
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