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Their way was blocked on 24 December and she encouraged her fellow protestors to advance on the police who were using hoses to keep people back. She told them that they were used to getting wet and they should not back down for such a trivial reason. She led the way with her daughter, Denise, on her
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which is a restaurant that serves fried plantain. She met René Sery Koré who was already married but she bought presents for his wife and she agreed that she could become his second polygamous wife. However, as far as her supporters were concerned she was his only wife. By 1947 she was even more
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Koré died in 1953 after a trivial operation on a finger. The reason (or motive) for her death are unclear. She is a hero of the Ivory Coast and a banknote and stamp was issued featuring her portrait. A school is named after her and a prominent politician,
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back despite the water and tear gas. She fell and she was beaten and arrested. She was given a two month sentence. She became an important figure of this fight for independence including
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on 24 December 1949. She died young and she has appeared on her country's banknotes. One poll said that she was the most well known woman in the Ivory Coast.
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politically active and she was elected to be the
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says that the statue that commemorates the demonstration includes a figure with a child on her back - and that figure is Koré.
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