75 years after Viola Desmond’s arrest, a north-end Halifax group seeks to honour herPosted in Articles, Arts, Biography, Canada, History, Media Archive, Women on 2022-02-01 19:23Z by Steven |
75 years after Viola Desmond’s arrest, a north-end Halifax group seeks to honour her
CBC News
2021-11-08
Feleshia Chandler, Reporter
North End Business Association announces it will commission a commemorative art piece
It’s been 75 years since businesswoman-turned social justice activist Viola Desmond was arrested at the Roseland Theatre in New Glasgow, N.S., for challenging racial segregation by daring to sit in a “whites only” section.
To mark that anniversary, the North End Business Association in Halifax has announced a new commemorative art piece collaboration set to be completed in 2022.
“We’ve been working on it for the last year,” said Bernadette Hamilton-Reid with the African Nova Scotian Decade for People of African Descent Coalition (ANSDPAD).
“It’s very exciting to see this come to fruition as to how we can best commemorate Viola for her strong resiliency as a Black woman entrepreneur and setting the stage for many other generations to come after her.”
ANSDPAD is part of the Viola Desmond Legacy Committee, which was established in 2018 in order to see Desmond, who died in 1965, recognized in Halifax, the city where she lived and where her actions in business and civil rights have a lasting impact.
The North End Business Association is collaborating with the committee to have an art piece built on Gottingen Street, near where Desmond’s old hairdressing shop used to be…
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