Civil Rights Hero Viola Desmond Will Be The First Woman Featured On A Black rights activist viola desmond, who was jailed for defiantly sitting in the "whites only" section of a nova scotia film house, will be the first canadian woman to be featured on the. A black civil rights pioneer, viola desmond, will become the first woman other than the queen of england to be featured on the front of canadian currency. desmond’s image will appear on the $10.
Viola Desmond Civil Rights Activist Canadian currency will now feature its first canadian woman viola desmond, a canadian civil rights hero, will be represented on $10 bills later this year. she passed away in 1965, and her. More than 70 years ago, viola desmond stood up for civil rights in canada when she refused to leave a whites only section of a theater. last week, she was honored as the first black person and a non royal woman to become the face of a dollar bill in canada. The bank of canada released the ten dollar note that features viola desmond, making desmond the first canadian woman to be solely featured on canadian currency. viola desmond was born and raised in north end halifax, nova scotia, where she had a successful hair salon and beauty product business. You've likely heard about the new $10 dollar bill featuring entrepreneur viola desmond, the black canadian woman from nova scotia who was a canadian civil rights pioneer and challenged race based segregated seating at a cinema in 1949. she will be the first non royal woman and black person featured on regular canadian.
Civil Rights Pioneer Viola Desmond To Be Featured On Canadian 10 Bill The bank of canada released the ten dollar note that features viola desmond, making desmond the first canadian woman to be solely featured on canadian currency. viola desmond was born and raised in north end halifax, nova scotia, where she had a successful hair salon and beauty product business. You've likely heard about the new $10 dollar bill featuring entrepreneur viola desmond, the black canadian woman from nova scotia who was a canadian civil rights pioneer and challenged race based segregated seating at a cinema in 1949. she will be the first non royal woman and black person featured on regular canadian. More than half a century after viola desmond challenged racial segregation by sitting in a whites only section of a new glasgow, n.s., movie theatre, the civil rights pioneer will become. Canada has announced that the first woman to grace its c$10 bill in 2018 will be viola desmond, a black woman from nova scotia who challenged racial segregation at a cinema in new glasgow in. Almost a decade before rosa parks sparked the civil rights movement in the us, a woman in nova scotia kicked off canada’s with a similar act of defiance at a segregated movie theater. and. Viola desmond, a civil rights activist who refused to leave the “whites only” section of a nova scotia film house in 1946, is the first woman – apart from the queen – to be featured on a canadian.