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**Sharing bits of Canada 'eh** @Canadian_Eh@mas.to · May 2

Sharing bits of Canada 'eh @Canadian_Eh@mas.to

Viola Desmond: Canadian Civil Rights Pioneer

Viola Desmond, a Black Nova Scotian businesswoman, challenged racial segregation In 1946, Viola Desmond bravely challenged racial segregation by refusing to leave a whites-only section of a movie theatre. Her act, though resulting in arrest, galvanized Canada’s civil rights movement. In 2018, she was honored on the Canadian $10 bill! #Canada #ViolaDesmond #CivilRights #CanadianHistory

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viola_Desmond

en.wikipedia.orgViola Desmond - Wikipedia

**Cory Doctorow** @pluralistic@mamot.fr · May 2, 2024

May 2, 2024

Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr

That is some straight up devilry right there.

A reproduction of a newspaper clipping. It reads:

MRS. VIOLA DESMOND

Takes Action

Mrs. Viola Desmond, 32-year-old Negro Halifax beautician, arrested and fined $20 and costs by Magistrate Rod G. MacKay, of this town. for sitting downstairs in the Roseland Theatre while holding an upstairs ticket.

Mrs. Desmond was fined for defrauding the Federal Government of one cent, the difference in the Amusement tax on an upstairs ticket of two cents and a downstairs ticket of three cents.

Counsel for Mrs. Desmond, F. W. Bisset of Halifax, has served a writ against Henry MacNeil. manager of the theatre, charging false arrest. false imprisonment, assault and malicious persecution.

E. M. Macdonald, K.C., of New Glasgow, is acting, for Mr. MacNeil. Mrs. Desmond, the former Viola Davis, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Davis, of Halifax, is well known throughout the
Province. She is a graduate of the Halifax High School, and is also a graduate in Beauty Culture from a leading Beauty College in New York. She is a niece of John Davis, Civil Service employee (Post Office Division). Halifax.

#ViolaDesmond #CanadianMuseumForHumanRights #Winnipeg

**Apollo Lemmon** @apollo@seizemeans.com · Dec 25, 2022

Dec 25, 2022

Apollo Lemmon @apollo@seizemeans.com

Today Celestine and I went for a walk and finally had a chance to see the beautiful Viola Desmond art installation on Gottingen. Viola's story is important for understanding how segregation created great harm here in Nova Scotia and Canada as a whole. There are lasting hardships this province and city haven't done enough to address and this piece celebrates resistance.

https://signalhfx.ca/ceremony-unveils-art-installation-commemorating-viola-desmond/

https://humanrights.ca/story/one-womans-resistance