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Viola Desmond : her life and times /
"For many Canadians, the first introduction to Viola Desmond will have been was seeing her portrait on the new $10 banknote. Those who are familiar with her life Others know that she was wrongfully arrested in 1946 for refusing to give up her seat in the racially segregated Roseland Theater in...
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Black Point, Nova Scotia ; Winnipeg, Manitoba :
Roseway Publishing, an imprint of Fernwood Publishing,
[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Introduction: Viola Desmond
- Chapter 1- Family ties and life in North End Halifax. The Davis family
- Education and career opportunities
- The king of Gottingen Street
- Chapter 2- Memories of my sister and the Roseland Theatre incident. My guardian angel
- The Roseland Theatre incident
- My personal journey of self-discovery through education and raising public awareness
- Chapter 3- Canada's Rosa Parks. Racial segregation in Canada
- They shall not be moved
- Initial reactions
- Chapter 4- A woman of her time: Viola Desmond and black beauty culture in Canada. Early pioneers of black beauty culture in the United States: Annie Turnbo Malone and Madam C.J. Walker
- The new ideal of black beauty: "If not black, certainly not white"
- Viola and the emergence of black beauty culture in Canada
- Desmond school of beauty culture
- Chapter 5- Viola Desmond's legacy. Canadian human rights movement
- The dynamics of change: The 1960s, 1970s and beyond
- Epilogue: Toward a new direction
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- Index.