1929–1968
Biography · Civil Rights
Viola Desmond
1914–1965
Canada
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In 1946, businesswoman Viola Desmond refused to leave a whites-only section of a New Glasgow cinema. Her arrest and conviction helped energize Canada’s civil-rights movement.
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1925–1965