• There are numerous Black people, men and women, who refused to surrender their seats for a White person. Everyone knows about Rosa Parks refusing to give up...
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  • On Nov. 8, 1946, Viola Desmond stood up against a racially segregated movie theatre in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia. Her courageous stand, nine years before...
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  • Black History Month is a time to learn about the amazing contributions of Black Canadians to the settlement, development and growth of Canada. Viola Desmond...
  • Viola Irene Desmond (née Davis), businesswoman, civil rights activist (born 6 July 1914 in Halifax, NS; died 7 February 1965 in New York, NY). Viola Desmond bu...
  • Civil rights pioneer, Viola Desmond, was a Black-Canadian businesswoman who was jailed and fined in 1946 for refusing to give up her seat in the whytes-only...
  • It’s really unjust trying to make someone leave an area of a theatre that is accessible for them. I sat in that area b/c my eyesight is bad and I (like everyone else)...
  • Viola Davis Desmond was one of the most successful Canadian, Black or White, entrepreneurial women of her time. She was born in Halifax’s.
  • Viola Desmond (6 July 1914 – 7 February 1965) was a Canadian civil rights activist and businesswoman. She owned a hair salon, a beauty school, and even had...