Viola Desmond (1914–1965)
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Released:
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Saturday, August 19, 2017
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Origin:
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Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
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In GeoWoodstock XVIII - GWXVIII
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This Trackable was first issued and place by the Girl Guides of Newfoundland during their 2017 Provincial Camp. The girls created a travel bug hotel and issued several travel bugs named for Influential Canadian Women throughout history. Its Mission is to travel Canada so that young girls everyone can learn more about these amazing women and what they have accomplished. They have helped create the Canada of today!
Viola Desmond (1914–1965)
Challenged segregation practices in Nova Scotia. Long before the modern civil rights movement in the United States, a black woman from Halifax took a stand for racial equality in a rural Nova Scotia movie theatre. It was 1946, and Viola Desmond, a hairdresser, caused a stir by refusing to move to a section of the theatre unofficially set aside for black patrons. Desmond was dragged out of the theatre and jailed. While officials denied that Desmond’s race was the root of the issue, her case galvanized Nova Scotia’s black population to fight for change. In 1954, segregation was legally ended in Nova Scotia.
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