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Viola Desmond Won't Be Budged!

By Jody Nyasha Warner

Book information

Publisher
Groundwood Books Ltd
Year
2010
ISBN
9781554981960
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
11 MB (11986335 bytes)
Pages
None\0
Time added
2022-12-03 14:26:59
JUVENILE NONFICTION / Biography & Autobiography /

Description

In Nova Scotia, in 1946, an usher in a movie theatre told Viola Desmond to move from her main floor seat up to the balcony. She refused to budge. Viola knew she was being asked to move because she was black. After all, she was the only black person downstairs. All the other black people were up in the balcony. In no time at all, the police arrived and took Viola to jail. The next day she was charged and fined, but she vowed to continue her struggle against such unfair rules. She refused to accept that being black meant she couldn't sit where she wanted. Viola's determination gave strength and inspiration to her community at the time. She is an unsung hero of the North American struggle against injustice and racial discrimination whose story deserves to be widely known.

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