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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.
Artwork on the external walls of the theatre marking the Viola Desmond case. Art work on the side of the theatre marking the Viola Desmond case. Art work from an art competition commemorating the Viola Desmond case. Viola Desmond was a successful and respected businesswoman who ran a Halifax-based beauty parlour and beautician school. [6]
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The Canadian ten-dollar note is one of the most common banknotes of the Canadian dollar.. The current $10 note is purple, and the obverse features a portrait of Viola Desmond, a Black Nova Scotian businesswoman who challenged racial segregation at a film theatre in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, in 1946.
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— Justice William Lorimer Hall, when dismissing Desmond's application (1947) [3] Upon losing the case, Bissett refused to bill Desmond and his fees were donated back to William Pearly Oliver 's Nova Scotia Association for the Advancement of Coloured People .