Cover image for Viola Desmond
Title:
Viola Desmond
Personal Author EPSB:
Becky, Noelle
Summary:
"Discusses the life of Viola Desmond, the first Black woman in Canada to challenge racial segregation in court after being fined for sitting in the wrong section of a movie theatre.".
Year Published:
2021
Series:
Amazing women in Canada
Physical Description:
24 pages : illustrations
Personal Subject:
Desmond, Viola, 1914-1965.
Subject:
Civil rights workers, Black -- Nova Scotia -- Biography.

Black people -- Segregation -- Nova Scotia -- History.

Race discrimination -- Nova Scotia -- History.

Civil rights -- Nova Scotia -- History.

Black Canadian women -- Biography.

Black Canadian businesspeople -- Biography.
Geographic Term:
Nova Scotia -- Race relations -- History.

Nova Scotia -- Ethnic relations -- History.
Genre:
Biographies.
ISBN:
9781774562437

9781774562598
Publisher:
Collingwood, Ontario : True North, 2021.
Edmonton Public Schools