Women's march on Grand-Bassam
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Women's march on Grand-Bassam
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The women's march on Grand-Bassam was a 1949 women's protest against the French colonial rulers of Ivory Coast. In December 1949 anticolonial PDCI-RDA political leaders, imprisoned without trial in Grand-Bassam jail, started a hunger strike. Calling for their husbands to be released, a multiethnic coalition of women marched 30 miles from Abidjan to Bassam. Though official accounts at the time gave the number as 500 women, the actual number participating has subsequently been estimated to be two
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1949 protest in Ivory Coast
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_march_on_Grand-Bassam
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2023-05-11T11:27:45Z
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