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Viola Irene Desmond (July 6, 1914 – February 7, 1965) was a Canadian civil and women's rights activist and businesswoman of Black Nova Scotian descent. In 1946, she challenged racial segregation at a cinema in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, by refusing to leave a whites-only area of the Roseland Theatre.
May 9, 2024 · Viola Desmond (born July 6, 1914, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada—died February 7, 1965, New York, New York, U.S.) was a Canadian businesswoman and civil libertarian who built a career as a beautician and was a mentor to young Black women in Nova Scotia through her Desmond School of Beauty Culture.
Jan 27, 2013 · 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 built a career and business as a beautician and was a mentor to young Black women in Nova Scotia through her Desmond School of Beauty Culture.
Jul 3, 2019 · Nadra Kareem Nittle. Updated on July 03, 2019. She’s long been compared to Rosa Parks, and now late civil rights pioneer Viola Desmond appears on Canada’s $10 banknote. Known for refusing to sit in the segregated section of a movie theater, Desmond first graced the note in 2018.
Dec 8, 2016 · Canada. How civil rights icon Viola Desmond helped change course of Canadian history. N.S. woman refused to give up seat at movie theatre 9 years before Rosa Parks' famous act of defiance. CBC...
Viola Desmond was designated a national historic person in 2017. Historical importance: African-Canadian business woman, civil rights activist. Commemorative plaque: Former Roseland Theatre, 188 Provost Street, and Viola’s Way, New Glasgow, Nova Scotia 1.
Feb 2, 2016 · Historica Canada. 68.1K subscribers. Subscribed. 3.2K. 1M views 8 years ago. The story of Viola Desmond, an entrepreneur who challenged segregation in Nova Scotia in the 1940s. The 82nd...
Published: January 29, 2018. Story. Discrimination. Photo: Courtesy of Joe and Wanda Robson. Share this Story. In November 1946, hair salon owner Viola Desmond went to a film at the Roseland Theatre in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia. But what began as a night at the movies became a night in prison.
Dec 13, 2021 · Winnipeg Free Press, 1940. Viola Desmond was a Nova Scotia businesswoman and civil rights crusader. A former teacher turned cosmetologist, she did not set out to become an activist. In 1946, while waiting for her car to be repaired in New Glasgow, Desmond went to a movie theatre and inadvertently sat in a "whites only" section.
Viola Irene Desmond (née Davis, 1914-1965) was an African Nova Scotian businesswoman who, in New Glasgow's Roseland Theatre in 1946, challenged the province's systemic racial discrimination of the time in a way that marked a watershed moment for civil rights in Canada.
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