Viola Desmond
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Viola Irene Desmond 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
Desmond c. 1940
A tin of sepia face powder sold by Viola Desmond
The Roseland Theatre building in New Glasgow
Roseland film theatre
Black Nova Scotians
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Black Nova Scotians are Black Canadians whose ancestors primarily date back to the Colonial United States as slaves or freemen, later arriving in Nova Scotia, Canada, during the 18th and early 19th ce
Viola Desmond
…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…
Population distribution of Black Canadians in Nova Scotia by census division, 2021 census
1788 illustration of a Black woodcutter in Shelburne, Nova Scotia
Rose Fortune, Black Loyalist – Annapolis Royal c. 1830
Lawrence Hartshorne, d. 1822, a Quaker who was the chief assistant of John Clarkson in helping the Black Nova Scotian Settlers emigrate to Sierra Leone (1792) – Old Burying Ground (Halifax, Nova Scotia)