Viola Desmond, the new face of the $10 bill, ‘represents courage’Posted in Articles, Biography, Canada, Economics, History, Media Archive, Social Justice, Women on 2018-03-06 03:51Z by Steven |
Viola Desmond, the new face of the $10 bill, ‘represents courage’
The Globe and Mail
2016-12-09
/arc-anglerfish-tgam-prod-tgam.s3.amazonaws.com/public/SQVOHPW3ABASBBGVH3T5AXF7ZE) Viola Desmond, shown in this undated handout image provided by Communications Nova Scotia, often described as Canada’s Rosa Parks for her 1946 decision to sit in a whites-only section of a Nova Scotia movie theatre, will be the first woman to be celebrated on the face of a Canadian banknote. |
Viola Desmond just wanted to watch a movie.
The year was 1946 and the movie was The Dark Mirror, a psychological thriller starring Olivia de Havilland. Ms. Desmond, a beauty-school owner from Halifax, was temporarily stranded in New Glasgow, N.S., after some car trouble. She hadn’t been to the movies in years, probably not since Gone with the Wind came out in 1939.
So, she walked to a nearby theatre, bought a ticket and sat in the front – a better view for the petite woman with poor eyesight.
There was only one problem: She was black…
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