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| Title Statement | Meet Viola Desmond / Elizabeth MacLeod ; illustrated by Mike Deas. |
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| Series | Scholastic Canada biography |
| Author | MacLeod, Elizabeth |
| Additional Contributors | Deas, Mike,1982- |
| Publication | Toronto: Scholastic Canada Ltd.,2018.©2018 |
| Extent of Item | 31 pages |
| ISBN | 1443163872 9781443163873 |
| Other Number | 3395139 |
| Summary | "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 her right to be in the "unofficial" whites-only section of a New Glasgow movie theatre . . . and was arrested for it. Supported by the Nova Scotia Association for the Advancement of Coloured People (NSCAACP) and the black-owned newspaper The Clarion, Viola took her quest for the right to freedom from discrimination to the courts. While she ultimately did not succeed, she was a beacon to other early civil-rights activists. Her sister Wanda worked hard to promote Viola's legacy, which has been finally honoured by Viola's inclusion on the new Canadian"--Provided by publisher. |
| Subjects & Genres | |
| By Topic | Race discrimination--Juvenile literature--History--Nova Scotia |
| Civil rights--Nova Scotia--Juvenile literature--History | |
| Black Canadians--Biography--Juvenile literature--Nova Scotia | |
| By Name | Desmond, Viola,1914-1965 |
