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Meet Viola Desmond
Language: en
Pages: 31
Authors: Elizabeth MacLeod
Categories: Civil rights
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018 - Publisher:

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Meet Viola Desmond, community leader and early civil rights trailblazer! On the night of November 8th 1946, Nova Scotia businesswoman Viola Desmond stood up for
Viola Desmond Won't Be Budged
Language: en
Pages: 34
Authors: Jody Nyasha Warner
Categories: Juvenile Nonfiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010 - Publisher: Groundwood Books Ltd

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Tells the story of Viola Desmond, an African Canadian woman who, in 1946, challenged a Nova Scotia movie theater's segregation policy by refusing to move from h
Viola Desmond
Language: en
Pages: 96
Authors: Graham Reynolds
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-11-01T00:00:00Z - Publisher: Fernwood Publishing

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Many Canadians know that Viola Desmond is the first Black, non-royal woman to be featured on Canadian currency. But fewer know the details of Viola Desmond’s
Viola Desmond’s Canada
Language: en
Pages: 175
Authors: Graham Reynolds
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-03-30T00:00:00Z - Publisher: Fernwood Publishing

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In 1946, Viola Desmond was wrongfully arrested for sitting in a whites-only section of a movie theatre in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia. In 2010, the Nova Scotia Gov
Sister to Courage
Language: en
Pages: 196
Authors: Wanda Robson
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010 - Publisher:

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In Sister to Courage, Wanda takes us inside the world she shared with Viola and ten other brothers and sisters. Through touching and often hilarious stories, sh