But it is an opportunity to look at Black women and sisters of color’s relationship money ... to from the physical to the financial. Viola and Harriet are not just on these bills.

In 1946, Viola Desmond, a 32-year-old entrepreneur from ... When she was denied entrance to Halifax beauty schools because of her skin color, she trained in Montreal, New York, and New Jersey ...

The Canadian government announced that civil rights activist Viola Desmond will become the first woman of color to appear on the country’s banknotes. Desmond, who challenged racial segregation ...

In Canada, the first civilian woman will be on the country’s $10 bill next year. Her name is Viola Desmond. Never heard of her? Up until a few years ago, neither did many Canadians, reports CBS ...

As Reuters reports, Canada will give Viola Desmond a prominent place on its ... neighbor has faced in putting women—and women of color—on its own currency. As SmartNews reported earlier ...

Canada last week unveiled a new $10 bill bearing the image of Viola Desmond, an African-Canadian woman who was jailed after she refused to move out of the “whites only” section of a movie ...

And this month, that woman, Viola Desmond, became the first black person to appear on Canadian currency. She’s also the first woman to appear alone who’s not a British royal. The Bank of ...

Nine years before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus, Canada’s Viola Desmond was refusing to give up a seat of her own. When she was told she had to sit in a movie ...

Canada’s Viola Desmond, a black businesswoman, defied an order to leave a whites-only section of a Nova Scotia movie theater, spurring a broader fight for racial equality that helped end ...

Viola Desmond has become one of the most iconic figures in the Canadian civil rights movement, and has been honoured in a Google Doodle. The entrepreneur, who would be 104 today, is best known for ...

GATINEAU, Que. — It had been some time since Viola Desmond last visited the cinema. The hairdresser and entrepreneur opted to sit close to the front of the theatre; her poor eyesight made it ...