{"id":55874,"date":"2018-03-13T18:33:57","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T18:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=55874"},"modified":"2018-03-14T15:05:55","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T15:05:55","slug":"a-black-woman-who-defied-segregation-in-canada-will-appear-on-its-currency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=55874","title":{"rendered":"A Black Woman Who Defied Segregation in Canada Will Appear on Its Currency"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Black Woman Who Defied Segregation in Canada Will Appear on Its Currency<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The New York Times<\/a>
\n2018-03-12<\/p>\n

Ian Austen<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nCanada\u2019s finance minister, Bill Morneau<\/a>, right, with Wanda Robson in Gatineau, Quebec<\/a>, last year, after an image of her sister Viola Desmond<\/a> was chosen to be featured on a new $10 bank note.
\nChris Wattie\/Reuters<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

OTTAWA<\/a> \u2014 Nine years before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat<\/a> on a Jim Crow<\/a>-era bus in Montgomery, Ala.<\/a>, Viola Desmond<\/a> tried to sit in a whites-only section of a movie theater in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ms. Desmond, a businesswoman who had her own line of cosmetics and who died in 1965, was prosecuted for trying to defraud the provincial government of 1 cent \u2014 the difference in sales tax for a seat in the balcony, where blacks were expected to sit and the whites-only ground floor ticket price. While she offered to pay the tax, she was convicted and fined 26 Canadian dollars, including court costs, at a trial at which the theater owner acted as the prosecutor and she was without a lawyer.<\/p>\n

Now she is about to become the first black person \u2014 and the first woman other than a British royal \u2014 to appear alone on Canadian currency. The new series of $10 bills is to be released this year…<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nA conceptual image of the front of the new Canadian bank note featuring a portrait of Viola Desmond<\/a>.
\nBank of Canada<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now she is about to become the first black person \u2014 and the first woman other than a British royal \u2014 to appear alone on Canadian currency. The new series of $10 bills is to be released this year. The new series of $10 bills is to be released this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,19,14647,459,8,25],"tags":[28147,28146,2640,6381,2327,28119,28120],"class_list":["post-55874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-canada","category-economics","category-history","category-media-archive","category-women","tag-ian-austen","tag-new-glasgow","tag-new-york-times","tag-nova-scotia","tag-the-new-york-times","tag-viola-desmond","tag-wanda-robson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55874"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55881,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55874\/revisions\/55881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}