Word: tovalou
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Prince Kojo Tovalou Houenou, nephew of King Behanzin of Dahomey (West African province), received one franc (about six cents) damages for having been thrown out of a Montmartre cabaret (TIME, Aug. 20). The cabaret manager who ejected the Prince was fined 200 francs ($12) and sentenced to 15 days' imprisonment, but the sentence was suspended. Witnesses for the defense stated that the Prince and his brother were thrown out of the establishment, not because they were black, but because they were not in evening clothes. They also stated that no violence was used. The Americans who were alleged to have...
...Negroes were Prince Kojo Tovalou Houenou and his brother, Prince Marc, nephews of King Behanzin of Dahomey, a province of French West Africa. The white Frenchman was a M. Humbert de Navry...
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