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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 .
1 Personal life. 2 Legal defense of Viola Desmond. 3 References. 4 Bibliography. Toggle the table of contents. ... He is mostly known as Viola Desmond's lawyer ...
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.
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.
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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]