nov 9, 1946 - Viola Desmond Arrested (1946)

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"Viola Desmond, a Black woman in Nova Scotia, was arrested in November 1946 for the crime of not sitting in the upstairs area set aside for Blacks in the theatre (Thornhill 2008: 333)."

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Source: Robyn Maynard. Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present (2017). Page 38.

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