Viola Desmond
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Photo: Winnipeg Free Press [Public domain]
Country: Canada
Location: Nova Scotia
About
Viola Desmond (July 6, 1914-February 7, 1965) was an Afro-Canadian (specifically Black Nova Scotian) activist, community leader and entrepreneur who resisted racial segregation and racial discrimination when she refused to sit in the black-only section while trying to see a movie at the Roseland Theatre in Sydney, Nova Scotia.