BLACK FACTS: A Celebration of Black History Month Brought to you - TopicsExpress



          

BLACK FACTS: A Celebration of Black History Month Brought to you by the OPSEU Workers of Colour Caucus In 1946, Black Nova Scotian Viola Davis Desmond challenged segregation in Canada nine years before Rosa Parks’ famous refusal to sit at the back of the bus in Montgomery Alabama, by sitting in the whites-only ground section of a movie theatre in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, instead of the balcony reserved for Black people. Desmond was arrested and convicted for tax evasion for not having paid the one cent extra tax that a ground section ticket cost. When she appealed the conviction, the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia upheld her conviction. Desmond was posthumously pardoned in 2010 by the Province of Nova Scotia.
Posted on: Fri, 07 Feb 2014 19:08:55 +0000

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