Desmond, Viola, 1914-1965
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Birth Date
- 1914-07-06
Death Date
- 1965
Descriptor
- Women, Black
Birth Place
- New Glasgow (N.S.)
Field of Activity
(lcsh) Blacks--Civil rights--Canada
Occupation
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Sources
- found: Warner, Jody. Viola Desmond won't be budged, 2010
- found: AMICUS, Nov. 8, 2010(est. hdg.: Desmond, Viola, 1914-1965)
- found: Wikipedia, Aug. 23, 2016(Viola Desmond was a Black Nova Scotian businesswoman who challenged racial segregation at a film theatre in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia in 1946, born July 6, 1914 in Halifax, N.S., d. 1965 in N.Y.C.)
- found: Work cat.: MacLeod, Elizabeth. Meet Viola Desmond, 2018:title page (Viola Desmond) page 30 (Viola was born 1914 in Halifa, Nova Scotia; she died in 1965 in New York; in 2018, Viola appeared on Canada's ten-dollar bill; she was the first Canadian woman to appear alone on the front of a banknote)
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Change Notes
- 2010-11-08: new
- 2022-02-02: revised
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