jan 1, 1945 - Viola Desmond {Tarasa}
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Viola Irene Desmond was a Canadian Black Nova Scotian businesswoman who faced racial segregation at a film theatre in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, in 1946. (all by herself!!!) She refused to leave a whites-only area of the Roseland Theatre and was convicted of a minor tax violation for the one-cent tax difference between her paid and used seat. Desmond's case is one of the most famous incidents of racial discrimination in Canadian history and helped start the modern civil rights movement in Canada. The government of Nova Scotia also apologized for charging her for tax evasion. Without Viola Desmond, there would be a black and a white section in the movie. She also was one of the key factor in the civil rights movement
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