Viola Desmond

New $10 Bill Featuring Viola Desmond Goes Into Circulation Next Week

HALIFAX—A new $10 banknote featuring Viola Desmond's portrait will go into circulation in a week, just over 72 years after she was ousted from the whites-only section of a movie theatre in New Glasgow, N.S. The ...

November 12, 2018BY The Canadian Press
Civil Rights Icon Viola Desmond Immortalized on Canada’s New $10 Bill

In a historic ceremony in Halifax on International Women’s Day, Viola Desmond became the first black person and ...

March 8, 2018BY Rahul Vaidyanath

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