Viola Desmond Won't Be Budged!
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pictorial paper, unpaged : color illustrations, a fine copy, post will be reduced,In Nova Scotia, in 1946, an usher in a movie theater told Viola Desmond to move from her main floor seat up to the...
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pictorial paper, unpaged : color illustrations, a fine copy, post will be reduced,In Nova Scotia, in 1946, an usher in a movie theater told Viola Desmond to move from her main floor seat up to the balcony. She refused to budge. Viola knew she was being asked to move because she was black. In no time at all, the police arrived and took Viola to jail. She is an unsung hero of one of Canada's oldest and most established black communities. Like Claudette Colvin and Rosa Parks, who many years later, in 1955, refused to give up their bus seats in Alabama, Desmond's act of refusal awakened people to the unacceptable nature of racism and began the process of bringing an end to racial segregation in Canada.
Product Info
ISBN: 177306035X
ISBN-13: 9781773060354
Publisher: Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press
Year: 2018
Type: Used
Binding: Softcover
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Address: P.O. Box 691 Fredericton, New Brunswick
Website: https://www.bagbooks.com
Country: Canada
