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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 Theatre .
Alfred Ernest Waddell (25 August 1896 – 20 March 1953) was a Trinidadian physician and civil rights activist who is known for treating Viola Desmond's injuries following her 1946 arrest for sitting in a whites-only section of a cinema in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, Canada.
The Roseland Theatre is a landmark theatre in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia.Originally built for silent films, it is one of the oldest movie theatre buildings in Nova Scotia but it is best known as the location of a human rights case involving Viola Desmond, who challenged racial segregation in 1946. [1]
EGOT winner Viola Davis has another trophy to add to her collection, and this one is dedicated to her younger self.. The actress, 59, made an emotional speech at the Golden Gala on Jan. 3 as she ...
Robson became an activist when her sister, civil rights activist Viola Desmond, was arrested in 1946. [1] Robson spent years working to get her sister's arrest pardoned, which occurred in 2010 through the Nova Scotia legislature. [1] Because of the considerable effort Robson put into this, Canada gave a posthumous free pardon for the first time.
Oscar winner Viola Davis has responded to critics of her latest film, "The Woman King," after they called for a boycott of the movie because it isn't entirely historically accurate.The film ...
Alfred Ernest Waddell (25 August 1896 – 20 March 1953) was a Trinidadian physician and civil rights activist who is known for treating Viola Desmond's injuries following her 1946 arrest for sitting in a whites-only section of a cinema in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Viola Davis and her husband Julius Tennon have been together for almost 25 years after meeting on the set of "City of Angels" in 1999. Here, their love story.